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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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no better than

Hello, teachers.

>We are no better than our last solution and therefore work constantly to improve quality, durability, user-friendliness and not least whole life-cycle costs.

I don't understand what "we are not better than our last solution" means in this context.
Could you help me?
  

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Anonymous We are no better than our last solution Hmm. I thought you would be able to work this one out just from the words used. We are only as [good / smart / clever / talented / skilled] as we were when we solved our most recent problem.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous We are no better than our last solution Hmm.
  • I thought you would be able to work this one out just from the words used.
  • We are only as [good / smart / clever / talented / skilled] as we were when we solved our most recent problem.
  • ) CJ
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AnonymousWe are no better than our last solution
Hmm. I thought you would be able to work this one out just from the words used.

We are only as [good / smart / clever / talented / skilled] as we were when we solved our most recent problem. (We want to become better.)

CJ
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Thank you, CalifJim!

This is from a company brochure.
I thought it was odd to advertise that they have not improved from their last solution. Don't you think so?
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AnonymousI thought it was odd to advertise that they have not improved from their last solution.
It's intended to be a more general statement than that. It's saying that no one can stop improving, no matter how good they already are.

CJ
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