Why did the chicken cross the road? Kindergarten teacher: To get to the other side. Plato: For the greater good. Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Timothy Leary: Because that's the only trip the establishment could let it take. Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we are quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. Hypocrites: Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas. Arthur Anderson Consultant: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenge to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use all its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology, in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Andersen Consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecturing and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an environment which was strategically based, industry focused, and built upon a consistent, clear and united market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful. Moses: And God came down from the Heavens and He said unto the chicken, 'Thou shalt cross the road.' And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing. Richard Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road. Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was. Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway? Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Oliver Stone: The question is not, ?Why did the chicken cross the road?? Rather it is, ?Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?? Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads. Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends on your frame of reference. Buddha: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The chicken did not cross the road, it transcended it. Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Colonel Sanders: What, I missed one?