Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 30 " One cannot not communicate." ― Paul Watzlawick One of the five Axioms of Communication ; also quoted as: "You  cannot not communicate. " Paul Watzlawick was born 100 years ago on July 25, 1921. Triggered by Ursula Moonen's LinkedIn post .   Poster by Erik Spiekermann  on p98a

Quote of the Week 29 "Software doesn’t age like fine wine; it ages like milk.   Software goes bad over time." ― Josh Corman Related quotes: "Code doesn't age like wine, it ages like milk." ― Chris Eng Triggered by Charity Major's use of a variation of the quote   "Software on the shelf doesn't age like wine; it ages like milk." in her  presentation  on Continuous Delivery where she argues that  software should be auto-deployed within 15 minutes after you merge it, with no manual gates.   Photo by Debby Hudson  on Unsplash The use of the full quote by Josh Corman can be found in a 2016 article . A later  blog article  acknowledges prior usage @ Microsoft. The attribution to Chris Eng has been made in a Lenovo presentation  (slide 9) and a CSO Online article  (cited here ). The origin of the quote, however, dates back to at least 2006 when Andy Ozment and Stuart E. Schechter authored a Usenix conference paper titled " Milk or Wi...

Quote of the Week 28 "All perceptions are real, at least to those who own them." ― Joe Folkman Related quotes: "In politics, perception is reality." ― Lee Atwater "Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that’s the truth in people’s minds." ― Steve Young "Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that." ― Bill Cowher Triggered by Ron Lichty's use of the quote in many of his  presentations  and the book " Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams " citing Folkman's 1996 book "Turning Feedback into Change!". See also Principle 5 in Folkman's subsequent book " The Power of Feedback ".

Quote of the Week 27 "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." ―  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (The Leopard / Il Gattopardo) Triggered by Robert Cialdini's use of the quote when promoting the updated edition of his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" on The Psychology Podcast . The literal translation of the Italian original quote "Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi" is closer to "If we want everything to stay as it is, everything has to change"  "If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change" as discussed here . See also :  > “If you don’t change, time will change you.”