Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 11 “ To define is to limit.” ― Oscar Wilde ,  The Picture of Dorian Gray     Full quote : “What are you?" "To define is to limit.”            

Quote of the Week 10 “ To explain is to jam people's thinking.” ― Etel Adnan , Shifting the Silence     Triggered by the exibition " Shifting the Silence. Die Stille verschieben "  at the Lenbachhaus, Munich.

Quote of the Week 9 “ Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” ― Michael Jackson   Related: Quote of the Week 50 / 2020 " Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. " ―  Jonathan Swift Full quote :

Quote of the Week 8 “ I may not always be right, but I’m never wrong.” ― attributed to  Samuel Goldwyn Triggered by a recent  QuoteInvestigator  review.

Quote of the Week 7 “ Don’t believe everything you think. ” ―  Sidney K. Bennett Triggered by a recent QuoteInvestigator review. Variants: “ Don’t believe everything you think, especially today. ” “ Don’t believe anything you think and only half what you know. ” Related : “ Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” ―  Edgar Allan Poe (Short story “ The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether ”)

Quote of the Week 6 “ A solution looking for a problem has found an artificial problem looking for a solution. ” ― Alan Bipe On the use of blockchain technology for Agentic AI .  

Quote of the Week 5 “ Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” ― Charles de Gaulle Triggered by the recent Quote Investigator research. 

Quote of the Week 4 “ We both step and do not step into the same river, we both are and are not.” ― Heraclitus Triggered by the reference to a variation of the quote in WDR 5 - Das philosophische Radio Podcast with  Heinz-Michael Bartling: Weisheit und Wandel   (01/05/2026) . Related (see Wikipedia for details): You cannot step into the same river twice Since Plato, Heraclitus's theory of flux has been associated with the metaphor of a flowing river, which cannot be stepped into twice. [ 57 ] [ as ]  This fragment from Heraclitus's writings has survived in three different forms: [ 56 ] "On those who step into the same rivers, different and different waters flow" –  Arius Didymus , quoted in  Stobaeus [ at ] "We both step and do not step into the same river, we both are and are not" –  Heraclitus Homericus ,  Homeric Allegories [ au ] "It is not possible to step into the same river twice" –  Plutarch ,  On the E at Delphi [ av ] The classicis...

Quote of the Week 3 " Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been. " ― David Bowie  (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016 )   Related :  "Age doesn't bother me. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am."

Quote of the Week 2 " You can't always get what you want.   But if you try sometime you'll find   You get what you need. " ―  The Rolling Stones  ( Keith Richards / Mick Jagger) , " You Can't Always Get What You Want " Lyrics   Related: Quote of the Week 28, 2024 " I've learned that what we want is seldom what we need, and what we need is almost never what we want." ―  James Norbury    You Can't Always Get What You Want Song by The Rolling Stones ‧ 1969 Übersicht Text Weitere Aufnahmen Lyrics I saw her today at the reception A glass of wine in her hand I knew she would meet her connection At her feet was her footloose man No, you can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you'll find You get what you need I saw her today at the reception A glass of wine in her hand I knew she was gonna meet her connection At her feet was her footloose man Y...

Quote of the Year 2025* “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ―  William Arthur Ward   [ CW 4 ] Runner-up “ The danger isn't AI thinking like humans, but humanity thinking like AI.” ―  Julian Goldstahl   [ CW 38.2 ] * as measured by LinkedIn impressions.  

Quote of the Week 1 " Mission-driven 'assholes': The people who are crazy passionate—and a little crazy.  " ― Tony Fadell , Build Triggered by a recent discussion on LinkedIn . See also: " 4 Types of Assholes " – all of whom I have encountered during my career. Mit ChatGPT erstellt Mission-driven “assholes”: The people who are crazy passionate—and a little crazy. They speak most frankly, trampling the politics of the modern office, and steamroll right over the delicate social order of “how things are done around here.” Much like true assholes, they are neither easygoing nor easy to work with. Unlike true assholes, they care. They give a damn. They listen. They work incredibly hard and push their team to be better—often against their will. They are unrelenting when they know they’re right, but are open to changing their minds and will praise other people’s efforts if they’re genuinely great. A good way to know if you’re working with a mission-driven "ass...

Quote of the Week 52 " You have power over your mind - not outside events.   Realize this, and you will find strength. " ―  Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

Quote of the Week 51 “ One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” ―  Milton Friedman

Quote of the Week 50 “ The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.” ― Hannah Arendt Triggered by Hannah Arendt 's 50th anniversary of death.

Quote of the Week 49 “ There are three sides to the question — my side, your side, and the right side.” ―  Wray Hunt Triggered by yesterday's Quote Investigator post. Related:

Quote of the Week 48 “ Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” ― Aesop

Quote of the Week 47 “ The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.” ― Theodore Levitt  ( Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition )    Often misattributed to John Sculley or Oscar Wilde  as documented by FALSCHZITATE .

Quote of the Week 46 “ Intention is the father of invention.” ― Alan Bipe   A variation of:   “ Necessity is the mother of invention ” ―  Proverb

Quote of the Week 45 “ Inside every old person there is a young one wondering what happened.” ― Dan Sullivan   (often attributed to Terry Pratchett) Triggered by a recent Quote Investigator post.

Quote of the Week 44 “ Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. ” ―  Jeremy Bentham - An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Triggered by the citation in A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI  (pg. 43) by Max Bennett. Related: “ Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.” ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj “ Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.” ―  Ramana Maharshi