Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 41 " Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything." ―  Giacomo Leopardi   " Kinder finden Alles im Nichts, Erwachsene finden nichts in Allem." Triggered by the use of the quote in the WDR 5 Das philosophische Radio podcast: Saskia Wendel  ―  Über die Hoffnung .

Quote of the Week 40 “Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.” ―  Bertolt Brecht “ Ja, mach nur einen Plan, Sei nur ein großes Licht! Und mach dann noch’nen zweiten Plan, Gehn tun sie beide nicht. ” ―  Bertolt Brecht ,  Das Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens . In:  Die Dreigroschenoper , Dritter Akt Alternative translation : “ Aye, make yourself a plan They need you at the top! Then make yourself a second plan Then let the whole thing drop ” Source:   ' The song of the futility of all human endeavour ' (1929) More quotes on  planning . Source:   Spreadshirt [ LinkedIn ]

Quote of the Week 39 “Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.” ― Attributed to David Ogilvy Triggered by the use of the quote in the reference for my " Build it and they will come – I don't think so "  principle . However, I could not find a primary source for the original quote . A similar quote is attributed to  William Bernbach: “ A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad .” ―  William Bernbach Interesting as Ogilvy and Bernbach have been described as antipodes and likened to Stones vs. Beatles : "‘ Ogilvy on Advertising ’ was the first book I read about the business. It polarised the advertising world. It was a bit like the Stones v Beatles debate. You either followed  the wisdom of Bill Bernbach  or you followed  the wisdom of David Ogilvy . (I follow both)." [ LinkedIn ]

Quote of the Week 38 "W e all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own . " ―  Marcus Aurelius     Triggered by the use of the quote in a  Daily Stoic   tweet : “It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” — Marcus Aurelius — Daily Stoic (@dailystoic) October 28, 2023 [ LinkedIn ]

Quote of the Week 37 “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” ―  Antonio Gramsci *,  Prison Letters Triggered by the citation of the quote in the WDR 5 podcast Das philosophische Radio , Thea Dorn: Zuversicht bewahren , 2. Sept. 2024. “ W e need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will . ” “ Man muss nüchterne, geduldige Menschen schaffen, die nicht verzweifeln angesichts der schlimmsten Schrecken und sich nicht an jeder Dummheit begeistern. Pessimismus des Verstandes, Optimismus des Willens . ” ―  Antonio Gramsci ,   Gefängnishefte, H. 28, §11, 2232 Related: “Optimism is true moral courage.” ― Ernest Shackleton See also: “ Optimism is just lack of information. ” ―  Heiner Müller   (Quote of the Week 11, 2022) Alternative view:  "Pessimism is just lack of hope ." * According to Antonini's 20

Quote of the Week 36 “If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.” ―  Quentin R. Bufogle Triggered by a recent tweet : If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first. — Philosophy Of Life (@PhilOfLife_) August 29, 2024

Quote of the Week 35 " I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.  " ― Douglas Adams " I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be. " No, this quote is not from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . It  comes from The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul , which was published in 1988. Source:  Linda Curtis-Stolper Triggered by  Quote of the Week 28 .

Quote of the Week 34 “If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.” ―   Linus Pauling   Source: Timespinner Press (Michael Dobson) Triggered by the use of a variant of the quote in a recent talk " Can LLMs Reason & Plan? " (slide 24) by Subbarao Kambhampati . “I get many ideas, and I throw away the bad ones.” Dear @aclmeeting Community: I was privileged to speak, and have invigorating conversations nonstop with many of you from 9AM-10:30PM today. For an old professor like me, this is pig's heaven! 🤗 Thank you for your kindness!🙏 Slides of my talk https://t.co/2iP0OwimG3 Audio… pic.twitter.com/FGAzSPEXEl — Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) (@rao2z) August 13, 2024

Quote of the Week 33 " The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved." ― Pete Seeger Similar quotes: "The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one." ―  Will McAvoy (fictional character, TV series The Newsroom ) ― Aaron Sorkin   (screenwriter of  The Newsroom ) "The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist." ― Zig Ziglar Triggered by a variant of the quote in Shreyas Doshi's  tweet : "The first step in fixing a problem is first admitting there’s a problem." The first step in fixing a problem is first admitting there’s a problem. In that spirit, here’s a short video summary of culture anti-patterns on Eng / PM / Design teams. (might help explain what you have seen on your team right now or on previous teams) https://t.co/IdAGe6j4ma — Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) August 8, 2024