Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 8 " I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. " ―  Abraham Maslow 'Law of the instrument' || "Law of the hammer" || "Maslow's hammer" Source:   Q uote Investigator  and  W ikipedia .

Quote of the Week 7 " Vision without execution is just hallucination. " ―  Henry Ford Many thanks to  Elliott Seymour, Jr.   who relayed this snippet of wisdom to me more than 20 years ago after a roadmap presentation at the iXOS User Community Americas 2000 conference in San Antonio. Source : 150 Henry Ford quotes . (I have also seen this quote attributed to Thomas A. Edison .) A variation of a Japanese proverb : " Vision without action is a daydream.   Action without vision is a nightmare. "

Quote of the Week 5 " Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan . " ―   Cited by John F. Kennedy   Background information:  He said "There's an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan. ...". "While John F. Kennedy gets credit for saying, victory has a thousand fathers, people forget that he called it an old saying. It is actually during World War II that Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's foreign minister and his son-in-law as well, wrote in his diary: victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. " Source:  Origin of 'No Jack Kennedy' Comment Disputed (NPR) Ciano's statement was probably influenced by Tacitus. Tacitus’s law:  “Inquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi indicant; aduersa uni imputantur” (Agricola 27:1 - 98 AD) which roughly translates to " This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone. ...

Quote of the Week 4 " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. " ―    misattributed to Albert Einstein   Background information:  Q uote Investigator .

Quote of the Week 3 " You can go anywhere but you are where you came from. " ―  John Andrew Hull, Manchester Orchestra, “ The Silence ” ( Song Lyrics )

Quote of the Week 1 " Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " ―  Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire Source: The Guardian .

Quote of the Week 51 " Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. " ―  Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man   See also:  O xford Reference .

Quote of the Week 50 " Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. " ―  Jonathan Swift Background information:  Quote Investigator .

Quote of the Week 48 " When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. " ―  Goodhart's Law See  Wikipedia  for background information.

Quote of the Week 47 " The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. " ―  attributed to George Bernard Shaw See also  Q uote Investigator .