RE: Thank You from new tech writer

Subject: RE: Thank You from new tech writer
From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
To: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:33:40 -0500

Jonathan West wisely offered:
> > suggestions for good books for a beginning tech writer?
>
> No, but here is a little slogan to put up on your desk.
>
> "The customer never knows what he wants until he has received what he
> asked for."

That seems somehow related to this other observation:

"Computers are neither stupid nor temperamental; they are far more
insidious than that because they insist on doing precisely what you tell
them to do."

Kevin
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References:
Thank You from new tech writer: From: Jim Mezzanotte
Re: Thank You from new tech writer: From: Jonathan West

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