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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: Jurgis Bekepuris who wrote (53804)3/26/2003 3:13:14 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
Very little in life is black and white ... excepting Ansel Adams, of course ... so it is reasonable to expect that any company in the real world will never be an absolute, total, perfect in all respects, gorilla with no disputes, qualifications, footnotes, and the like. Even with MSFT, one can point to very non-gorilla-like failures (Bob!). This does not remove the value in the classification.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier
de Lamarck, known not so fondly as simply Lamarck when being defamed in biology texts, wrote back in the early 1800s that one needed to be aware that classificatory systems ... he was referring particularly to the then relatively new Linnean taxonomy ... were crutches that we humans used to aid in our understanding because we were not able to deal with the richness of the variation which occured in nature and that we must always remember that they were not what was real, nature was what was real.
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