Quote Of The Week

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

Quote of the Week 32 " We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack." ―  Arthur Schopenhauer The quote is sometimes supplemented by "Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter." but I could not find a corresponding reference in the original context . "S elten bedenken wir, was wir besitzen, stets was uns fehlt." German  variant - translated back from the English  quote :  " Wir denken selten an das, was wir haben, aber immer an das, was uns fehlt."   Triggered by Quote of the Week 28 .