Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 40 “Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.” ―  Bertolt Brecht “ Ja, mach nur einen Plan, Sei nur ein großes Licht! Und mach dann noch’nen zweiten Plan, Gehn tun sie beide nicht. ” ―  Bertolt Brecht ,  Das Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens . In:  Die Dreigroschenoper , Dritter Akt Alternative translation : “ Aye, make yourself a plan They need you at the top! Then make yourself a second plan Then let the whole thing drop ” Source:   ' The song of the futility of all human endeavour ' (1929) More quotes on  planning . Source:   Spreadshirt [ LinkedIn ]

Quote of the Week 11 " The best way to destroy the beauty of a plan is to intend to implement the plan. " ― Joschka Breitner (pseudonym; IRL Karsten Dusse ) Triggered by the use of the quote in Dusse's book :  Das Kind in mir will achtsam morden . " Die beste Art und Weise, die Schönheit eines Planes zu zerstören, ist die Absicht, den Plan umzusetzen. "

Quote of the Year 2024* "The best way to destroy the beauty of a plan is to intend to implement the plan." ― Joschka Breitner (pseudonym; IRL   Karsten Dusse )   [ CW 11 ] Runner-up "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." ― John Lennon   [ CW 5 ] * as measured by LinkedIn impressions.

Quote of the Week 13 " We suffer more in imagination than in reality. " ― Seneca   Triggered by the use of the quote   "There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality." in a  tweet by Billy Oppenheimer  published on Saturday. In Jaws, you don’t see the shark until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the movie. That wasn’t the plan. According to the script, the mechanical shark, “Bruce,” was supposed to get way more screen time. But Bruce was built for and tested in a North Hollywood freshwater tank. Oops:… pic.twitter.com/FchkwhcVYm — Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer) March 25, 2023 [ LinkedIn ]

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 19 "I f you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop. " ― Keith Jarrett (*May 8, 1945) Happy birthday to the master of perfect improvisation.* Triggered by unforeseen and hence unplanned circumstances during a recent vacation trip that reminded me of the story behind " The Köln Concert " bestselling solo-piano album ever  ―  in any genre  ―  covered here : "If I did The Köln Concert again, there'd be so much less ornamentation. It's all been transcribed and exists as sheet music now, but that just shows me all the sections I'd cut out. One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop." Source: " There is no plan " (The Guardian, October 2006) *See The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts for those that don't agree with the juxtapostion of "perfection" and "improvisation".