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smaddox on March 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley

Those are phrased too positively. Politicians need to phrase objectives in the negative in order to scare up support.

"The War on Infrastructure Decay" doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "The War on Drugs" or "The War on Terror".

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