On: Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

[yardie]

I’m not sure who came up with it first but the nautical expression is, “you sail with the crew you have”

[i_like_apis → yardie]

Yeah I should have left the Rumsfeld part out because the conversation naturally got distracted. It isn’t accurate to attribute it to him. His was perhaps the most prominent recent version , but he was definitely paraphrasing an existing adage.