Time, Tears, and Tolerance: Forget It

Quote of the day:
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
--Peter Drucker

Followup to yesterday, "Churchill, Bono, Holmes and Lincoln":
An unsigned editorial in today’s "Los Angeles Times" cites a new survey of ethical attitudes of teenagers by Michael Josephson. The results of the survey were not flattering. Example: 57 percent admitted lying to their parents, and 27 percent admitted lying on the survey. But the editorial said this:
“We can bemoan the misdeeds of teens, and indeed they’re troubling. But before we disdain adolescents too fast, we should remember that, luckily for us, Josephson doesn’t do a similar survey of adults.”

Quote of the day No. 2:
“We have become ever more impatient with the complexities and convolutions that characterize our most intractable problems, ever more intolerant of solutions that require patience, long-term thinking, and the coordination of multiple strategies. Like overweight people looking for a fat-burning pill, we want magic solutions that require no investment of time, tears or tolerance.”
--Leonard Pitts Jr. of "The Miami Herald"