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> > I’d like to be remembered as an innovator. I think it was General MacArthur said, you’re remembered for the rules you break, and you know I've broken some r
by teddyh 3y ago
> > I’d like to be remembered as an innovator. I think it was General MacArthur said, you’re remembered for the rules you break, and you know I've broken some rules to make this. I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fiber and titanium: there's a rule you don't do that. Well I did.
> [Note: According to Wikipedia, MacArthur is remembered for his accomplishments and his failures, the Occupation of Japan, “I shall return,” and being fired by Truman, not the rules he broke.}
Speaking of strategic misrepresentation… MacArthur is, in the initial quote above, presenting as having said that you’re remembered for the rules you break, but the response says that MacArthur was not himself remembered for the rules he broke, as if that was some sort of rebuttal.