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 .  

Quote of the Week 46 " Never let your skill exceed your virtue. " ―  Old Korean saying according to Harold Hongju Koh (former Dean of Yale Law School)

Quote of the Week 45 " If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. " ―  J im Barksdale  

Quote of the Week " The only true infinite thing is our ignorance. " ― Carlo Rovelli in " Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity ".

Quote of the Week " When you're dealing with exponential growth, the time to act is when it feels too early. " ―  Paul Graham First seen on Twitter .

Quote of the Week " A healthy society speaks with more than one voice. " ―  Li Wenliang (who died in February 2020)  

Quote of the Week " All models are wrong, but some models are useful. " ― George Box

Quote of the Week " Looked at in one way, everyone knows what intelligence is; looked at in another way, no one does. " ―  Robert J. Sternberg Quote from the " Handbook of Intelligence " cited in François Chollet’s seminal paper “ On the Measure of Intelligence ” that makes the case that for AI systems to reach their potential, we need quantitative and actionable methods that measure intelligence in a way that shows similarities with human cognition.

Quote of the Week " When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. " ―  Arthur C. Clarke ( Clarke's 1st Law )

Quote of the Week 7 " Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,   Courage to change the things I can,   And wisdom to know the difference. " ―  Serenity prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr See also:  LinkedIn  post.

Quote of the Week 6 " From the pain come the dream  From the dream come the vision  From the vision come the people  From the people come the power  From this power come the change " ― Peter Gabriel See also: LinkedIn post.

Quote of the Week 5 " I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. " ―  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry See also:   LinkedIn   post.  

Quote of the Week 4 " Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. " ―  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry See also:   LinkedIn   post.  

Quote of the Week 3 " To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. " ― Bertrand Russell See also:   LinkedIn   post.  

Quote of the Week 2 " Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. " ―  Bertrand Russell See also:   LinkedIn   post.  

Quote of the Week 1 " The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. " ―  Bertrand Russell See also:   LinkedIn   post.