Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 31 " The higher you climb, the smaller your world becomes. " ― Esther Crawford   Triggered by Esther's tweet about working with Elon Musk at Twitter: Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in… pic.twitter.com/bw7CHhk0Xg — Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) July 26, 2023

Quote of the Week 30 " The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. " ― Peter F. Drucker   Triggered by a discussion about leadership on Wednesday last week where I claimed that "Someone is a true leader when people follow the person voluntarily." just to find out that Peter Drucker has expressed a similar thought well before I ever did: " The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. To gain followers requires influence but does not exclude the lack of integrity in achieving this ."

Quote of the Week 29 " What goes up must come down. " ― Old adage  (sometimes attributed to Isaac Newton )   Triggered by a report on the declining interest in ChatGPT.    

Quote of the Week 28 " The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible. " ― Stephen King  (variation of a quote by Oscar Wilde)   " The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable. " ― Oscar Wilde     Triggered by King's tweet last week reflecting on the positive consumer reaction to Meta Thread vs. X Twitter.   Musk vs. Zuckerberg reminds me of what Oscar Wilde had to say about fox hunting: the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible. — Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 7, 2023    

Quote of the Week 27 " You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to it. " ― Ryan Holiday ( The Daily Stoic ) A variation of: " You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it. " ― Ryan Holiday   See also: “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude  toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather  than allowing it to master you.”  ―  Brian Tracy " It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. " ―  Epictetus Triggered by the use of a variant of the quote in a recent Daily Stoic  tweet : You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it. — Daily Stoic (@dailystoic) June 29, 2023 Related: " Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lie our freedom and power to choose a response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness. " ― Viktor Frankl  

Quote of the Week 26 " So GPT-4 is actually 8 expert raccoons in a trenchcoat. " ― Sasha Luccioni   Triggered by the citation of Luccioni's tweet in the article " GPT-4's Secret Has Been Revealed " by Alberto Romero. So GPT-4 is actually 8 expert raccoons in a trenchcoat 😂 https://t.co/eRWhcZoJ5l — Dr. Sasha Luccioni 💻🌎🦋✨🤗 (@SashaMTL) June 20, 2023 Image created with Microsoft Bing Image Creator (powered by DALL-E):  

Quote of the Week 25 " You can make a short road take forever . " ― Sophocles  (Antigone) " Es braucht viel Zeit, einen kurzen Weg zu gehen . " ―  Sophokles  ( Antigone , 232) " Derlei bedenkend, ging ich müßig langsam.  Und so wird auch ein kurzer Weg zum weiten."   ―  Sophokles  ( Antigone ) "And so, mulling it over, on I trudged, dragging my feet,  you can make a short road take forever."  ―   Sophocles  ( Antigone ) Triggered by the use of the quote in German as banner on a theatre truck:

Quote of the Week 24 " Direction is much more important than speed . " ―  Richard Feynman   Shreyas Doshi did offer a related thought: 3/ It is important to move fast, but the direction of our movement is more important than the speed. Backtracking after ending up in the wrong place sounds easy in theory but is extremely hard in practice because of our ego, our users’ attachment, and our code’s inelasticity. — Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) October 6, 2020 Triggered by the use of the quote in a recent @ProfFeynman tweet : Direction is much more important than speed. — Prof. Feynman (@ProfFeynman) June 7, 2023

Quote of the Week 23 " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic . " ― Arthur C. Clarke   ( Clarke's 3rd Law ) Adapted by Grey's Law : " Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice ."

Quote of the Week 22 "A computer  is the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. " ― Steve Jobs Triggered by the use of the quote in a Microsoft keynote by Satya Nadella last week: