Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 13 " If you want people to think, give them intent, not instruction. " ―  David Marquet Or go one step further. "If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

2nd Quote of the Week 12 " Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. " ―  Grey's Law A variant of Hanlon's Razor: "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice." Influenced by the third law of Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Quote of the Week 12 " In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middle Way Spells Certain Death. " ―  Friedrich Freiherr von Logau "In Gefahr und großer Not  bringt der Mittelweg den Tod." ― Friedrich Freiherr von Logau See also:  https://falschzitate.blogspot.com/2018/04/in-gefahr-und-groter-not-bringt-der.html  (German)

Quote of the Week 11 " If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. " ―  Blaise Pascal Source:  Quote Investigator Quote search triggered by a related quote:  "If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now." ― Woodrow Wilson Source:  Q uote Investigator

Quote of the Week 10 " No one comes out of a day full of Twitter celebrating humanity. " ―  Cal Newport (Computer Scientist and Writer) Source:  Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast

Quote of the Week 9 " What you seek is seeking you. " ― Dsch alāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Rumi) Source:  https://wisdomquotes.com/rumi-quotes/ Quote search triggered by the song “ Being With You ”.

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 .