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December 19, 2008 at 5:18 am #63829
A good quote can do a lot. Sum up a situation. Offer guidance. Provide clarity.
What are your favorites?
I’ll start:
Color outside the lines but on the same page
Its better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
No good deed goes unpunished.
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March 26, 2012 at 11:45 am #64229
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it” Mark Twain
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March 27, 2012 at 9:39 am #64227
“In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life literally transforms you” Diane Ackerman
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March 27, 2012 at 11:29 am #64225
“If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving may not be for you.” [by unknown] –> “If you keep failing with small data now, BIG DATA isn‘t for you!” [by Anton Chuvakin]
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March 27, 2012 at 12:28 pm #64223
“Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change you aren’t defeated by it. You’re learning from it” Bill Gates
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April 3, 2012 at 5:20 am #64221
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas Edison
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April 4, 2012 at 5:41 pm #64219
Given the current anti-tax atmosphere, there is no way Congress is going to take away from voters what voters mistakenly view as their God-given right to shop sales-tax-free.” — Richard Pomp
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April 4, 2012 at 6:11 pm #64217
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” Max Lucado
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April 6, 2012 at 11:46 am #64215
“Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.” Gerald Ford
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April 8, 2012 at 5:55 pm #64213
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere” Albert Einstein
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April 11, 2012 at 2:19 pm #64211
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important. ” ― Eugene J. McCarthy
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May 3, 2012 at 11:36 am #64209
“to be old and wise, you must first have to young and stupid” anonymous
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May 4, 2012 at 1:32 pm #64207
“Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.” Michael Caine
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May 4, 2012 at 3:39 pm #64205
Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters! Unknown
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May 4, 2012 at 3:41 pm #64203
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. -Wilbur Wright
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May 5, 2012 at 11:38 am #64201
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” ~ George Washington
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May 15, 2012 at 11:19 am #64199
“The further the problem [to be solved] from the solver’s expertise, the more likely they are to solve it,” K.R. Lakhini, Harvard Professor
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May 15, 2012 at 11:30 am #64197
I like that. There are studies that show if you ask an expert how to solve a problem – they hedge and build in buffers because they know all the variables, issues, possibilities and they take forever to solve the problem. Someone who is not familiar with the issue is not constrained by all the minutia and frequently solve the problem. Not to say we don’t need experts, but sometimes too knowledge can get in the way.
The value of the Beginners Mind!
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May 15, 2012 at 11:45 am #64195
“Moving mountains is not a spectator sport. If you see someone trying to make change at work and you support the idea, get in there and lend a hand, why don’t you?” From Rebels at Work Blog:
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May 22, 2012 at 1:36 pm #64193
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
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May 22, 2012 at 2:42 pm #64191
“You’ve got to somehow make a suburban dweller realize that the quality of life in the suburbs is directly related to the intensity of the core of the city. ” Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett
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May 22, 2012 at 6:37 pm #64189
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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May 24, 2012 at 11:47 am #64187
” Some bits of the more radical SOPA, in particular, “overreached” and “really did pose some risk to the Internet.” Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)
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May 25, 2012 at 2:14 pm #64185
“The pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort,” Albert Einstein
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May 29, 2012 at 11:41 am #64183
“Welcome to the college education revolution. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary” Thomas Friedman, NYT
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May 29, 2012 at 6:16 pm #64181
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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June 1, 2012 at 8:07 pm #64179
“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself” Robert Green Ingersoll
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June 1, 2012 at 8:11 pm #64177
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” Max Lucado
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June 2, 2012 at 11:47 am #64175
“When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.” Randy Pausch
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June 4, 2012 at 7:41 pm #64173
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”- Albert Einstein.
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June 5, 2012 at 9:43 am #64171
“no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy.” Helmut Von Moltke
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June 15, 2012 at 4:17 pm #64169
“Heroism is not a viable Leadership Strategy.” From the RecoveringFed Blog:
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June 16, 2012 at 10:01 am #64167
“Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do” Darren Hardy (amongst others)
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June 16, 2012 at 10:21 am #64165
“It was funny to see the real world start to catch up with things we were playing with on the fictional side.” Peter Singer Brookings Institute 21st Century Defense Initiative Director
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June 16, 2012 at 12:48 pm #64163
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person” Olivia Wilde
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June 18, 2012 at 2:31 pm #64161
“Until you have a breach, nobody really wants to step up and pay extra money for security,” Steve Fletcher Former CIO of Utah
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June 18, 2012 at 6:19 pm #64159
“The biggest risks to information security are the people. Studies have shown that most security incidents start from within, and are usually accidental,” Kevin Mitnick
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June 19, 2012 at 2:05 pm #64157
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” ~ President Dwight D Eisenhower
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June 19, 2012 at 2:08 pm #64155
“where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.” Ronald Reagan
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June 20, 2012 at 2:12 pm #64153
“You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk” Louise Smith
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June 22, 2012 at 10:49 am #64151
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” Roman philosopher Seneca
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June 23, 2012 at 1:57 pm #64149
“…to win in battle a pilot needs to operate at a faster tempo then his enemy…he must stay one or two steps ahead of his adversary: he must operate inside his adversary’s time scale.” John Boyd
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June 23, 2012 at 8:29 pm #64147
“Creativity is just connecting things,” Steve Jobs
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June 24, 2012 at 8:53 am #64145
“… There’s absolutely no point in pouring resources into information security if no one takes any notice. All the money and technology in the world will not protect your sensitive data if the all-important human element goes unaddressed.” Christian Toon Head of Information Security at Iron Mountain Europe
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July 1, 2012 at 12:39 pm #64143
“We Promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears” Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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July 5, 2012 at 4:42 pm #64141
“Don’t wait for the light to appear at the end of the tunnel–stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” Dara Henderson
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July 6, 2012 at 1:59 pm #64139
My first is one I use when there is a challenge thrown at me from a co-worker/family member: “Bring a friend, pack a lunch, we’ll make a day of it!” (Said in a mock-combative tone.)
“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” – From “Treasure of The Sierra Madre”
“Do you feel lucky?/ A man’s got to know his limitations.” – both from Dirty Harry movies
I have no intention of letting you leave here as dumb as you were when you arrived.
It’s so much fun watching someone say “It can’t be done” get interrupted by someone doing it.
Work fascinates me. I can watch it for hours.
“Danger, Will Robinson! Danger”- Robot from Lost in Space
“Where’s the kaboom? There’s supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!” – Marvin the Martian
“Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” – Bruce Banner/The Hulk
“Don’t **** with eagles until you learn to fly.”
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July 6, 2012 at 3:31 pm #64137
“Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can’t think of how to break it.” Bruce Schneier
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July 15, 2012 at 8:00 am #64135
“Being a professional is doing the things you love to do — even on the days you don’t feel like doing it.”
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July 16, 2012 at 11:15 am #64133
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies” .. Don Quixote
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July 17, 2012 at 1:32 pm #64131
“Online education is neither simple nor sinister”. John Thelin
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July 19, 2012 at 2:35 pm #64129
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.” – Eli Wiesel
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July 19, 2012 at 6:35 pm #64127
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July 19, 2012 at 8:00 pm #64125
“The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.” … newspaper columnist H.L. Mencken
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July 21, 2012 at 12:02 pm #64123
“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.” Sherrilyn Kenyon
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July 21, 2012 at 7:05 pm #64121
“One thing I learned along the way is that you must deliver something before you deliver everything in order to be successful.” – Michael D. Peters
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July 23, 2012 at 7:09 pm #64119
“Humility is a vitamin we should all consume everyday”..Eric Hampton blog
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July 26, 2012 at 9:12 pm #64117
Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behavior does…
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August 1, 2012 at 1:15 pm #64115
“I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
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August 1, 2012 at 9:08 pm #64113
“I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.” – Michael Jordan
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August 2, 2012 at 5:37 pm #64111
”A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – James Crook
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August 6, 2012 at 4:25 pm #64109
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” – Sun Tzu, from the Art of War
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August 7, 2012 at 1:28 pm #64107
”I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.” – Richard Feynman
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August 20, 2012 at 10:38 pm #64105
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde
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September 3, 2012 at 10:46 am #64103
“Let computers do what computers do best and teachers do what they do best.” Michael Horn
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September 4, 2012 at 12:20 pm #64101
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” (Ken Robinson)
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September 4, 2012 at 6:12 pm #64099
“You’re only given one little spark of madness. You Mustn’t lose it” Robin Williams
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September 5, 2012 at 6:28 pm #64097
“Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built” – Michelle Obama
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September 6, 2012 at 5:54 pm #64095
“Most People do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply” Stephen Covey
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September 7, 2012 at 11:00 am #64093
“To single out the institution as being solely responsible for student departure, as do many critics, is to deny an essential principle of effective education, namely that students must themselves become responsible for their own learning”. ( Vincent Tinto, 1994)
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September 12, 2012 at 12:19 pm #64091
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” Theodore Roosevelt 1910
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September 12, 2012 at 1:13 pm #64089
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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September 14, 2012 at 2:19 pm #64087
“The best feeling in the world is getting paid to do what you love” Angel Hack
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September 14, 2012 at 4:57 pm #64085
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” ~Fr. Alfred D’Souza
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September 16, 2012 at 2:06 pm #64083
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood” Marie Curie
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September 17, 2012 at 12:52 pm #64081
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” – George Washington’s Farewell Address, Sept. 17, 1796
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September 18, 2012 at 2:14 pm #64079
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain
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September 21, 2012 at 12:58 pm #64077
“I can certainly attest to the idea that here, increasingly, work is not a place you go, but what you do.” Todd Watson a Career IBM employee
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September 22, 2012 at 7:26 pm #64075
“Whoever told you real time was better? …When things are real time, it colonizes your mind. You have no time to think, you have no time to create, no time to strategize. All you are doing is reacting. Reacting is not marketing. That is one of the most important things to recognize.” Rishad Tobaccowala at AdExchange Conference in NYC from Gartner Bloger Andrew Frank
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September 28, 2012 at 1:07 pm #64073
“I have a very modulated way of dealing with my anger. I have always tried to understand the other person and invariably I’ve discovered that somebody who rubs you the wrong way has been rubbed the wrong way many times.” – Fred Rogers
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September 29, 2012 at 7:46 pm #64071
“People who have been in any type of environment for a little while know too much for their own good. It boxes them in. They know what’s not possible.” — David Marcus
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October 3, 2012 at 6:20 pm #64069
“You get what you measure. Metrics change behaviors; that’s their value. Sharing those measurements so people know the value of your efforts is a best practice ” Forrester Blogger Edward Ferrara
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October 9, 2012 at 2:21 pm #64067
“Mobile apps have the power to increase organizational agility…No matter where someone is in the world, they can manage their workflow around anything…” Roland Cloutier (VP, CSO, ADP)
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October 10, 2012 at 2:33 pm #64065
“The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrting, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.” Edwin Bliss
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October 13, 2012 at 11:04 am #64063
“We have actually regressed as a society when it comes to computer literacy and I would say half of the people writing about computers today do not know what they are talking about.” —John Dvorak at PCMag
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October 14, 2012 at 10:33 am #64061
“I long to accomplish some great & noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great & noble.” Helen Keller
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October 15, 2012 at 1:13 pm #64059
“The Web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect–to help people work together–and not as a technical toy” Sir Tim Berners-Lee
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October 18, 2012 at 2:30 pm #64057
“We’re able to view just everything that they do. And that’s really where data is going today. Data is the new oil.” Bill Diggins Verizon Marketing Chief
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November 6, 2012 at 1:01 pm #64055
“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try” John F. Kennedy
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November 8, 2012 at 2:01 pm #64053
“The pollsters tell us what’s happening now. When they start projecting, they’re getting into silly land.” NYT columnist David Brooks
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November 8, 2012 at 3:10 pm #64051
“Wisdom is not about knowing all the answers; it’s about asking the right questions ” Marcandangel.com
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November 9, 2012 at 1:59 pm #64049
Rather long quote but…
… “People embrace change all the time: they relocate, they get married, they have children, they take on new jobs, they buy new things, and so on. As Tim Kastelle says, “The kind of change that people resist is the kind that makes them worse off.”
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This suggests a natural route for change management: make changes only if they solve real problems, communicate how (and why) the problem is being solved, and (ideally) use solutions recommended by the people most directly impacted. If change originates on the shop floor, actually helps people, and isn’t some hammer of God coming down from above, it is far more likely to be embraced. ” Stephen Downes Blog
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November 9, 2012 at 9:20 pm #64047
“If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur security.” Bruce Schneier:
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November 12, 2012 at 1:08 pm #64045
“Traditional teaching is like giving people thousands of rubber mallets and asking them to drill a hole through a mountain. We need nitroglycerine.” Michael Saylor
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November 15, 2012 at 8:40 pm #64043
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain
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November 17, 2012 at 8:13 pm #64041
“Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.” ~ Siva Vaidhyanathan
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November 22, 2012 at 12:48 pm #64039
““Zombie ideas” are beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die,” Paul Krugman in the NY Times:
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November 25, 2012 at 12:44 pm #64037
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December 1, 2012 at 10:39 am #64035
“Everything flows and nothing stands still” Greek philosopher Heraclitus
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December 2, 2012 at 6:06 am #64033
“Art is our one true global language. It knows no nation, it favors no race, and it acknowledges no class… It transcends our ordinary lives and lets us imagine what is possible.” Richard Kamler:
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December 10, 2012 at 1:54 pm #64031
“The problem here at the dawn of the Information Age is not that we have too much technology. It’s that we’ve trained each other to use it badly. If we want better communication, the first thing we have to do is communicate better. Then the technology and technology vendors will have to adapt to us.” : Jon Mitchell in an OPED piece in Readwrite
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December 12, 2012 at 9:42 pm #64029
“We all do better when we all do better.” – Paul Wellstone
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December 18, 2012 at 2:32 pm #64027
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” Isaac Asimov
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December 29, 2012 at 12:04 pm #64025
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something and I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do” Edward Everett Hale
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December 30, 2012 at 12:25 pm #64023
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face” Eleanor Roosevelt
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December 31, 2012 at 11:41 am #64021
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December 31, 2012 at 2:00 pm #64019
“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” -John Dewey
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January 2, 2013 at 2:04 pm #64017
“This deal proves that if we all procrastinate long and hard enough, we can semi-solve any self-inflicted problem at the very last minute in a way that satisfies no one,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky)
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January 21, 2013 at 11:04 am #64015
“Wars do not make great men, but they do bring out the greatness in good men.” – Major Richard Winters
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January 21, 2013 at 11:30 am #64013
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity” — Martin Luther King
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January 21, 2013 at 5:24 pm #64011
Facts are stubborn things;
and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
— John Adams
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January 21, 2013 at 10:40 pm #64009
“Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.” – Golda Meir
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January 22, 2013 at 7:52 pm #64007
“Many view social media as the new water cooler, All we’re doing is applying traditional rules to a new technology.” NLRB chair Mark G. Pearce. From the NY Times
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January 23, 2013 at 6:52 pm #64005
Zealots often carry the day. – Bobby Ray Inman
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January 27, 2013 at 7:31 am #64003
“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.” Author Unknown
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February 17, 2013 at 12:39 pm #64001
“We here in the USA have forgotten how to have an intelligent argument. I don’t mean a marital spat, I refer to the process of deciding issues through informed argument, discussion, etc. Somehow, zealous advocacy has been replaced with over zealous absurdity.” Barry Ritholtz in the Big Picture Blog:
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February 19, 2013 at 10:24 am #63999
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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February 20, 2013 at 11:25 am #63997
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” ~ Herman Melville
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February 21, 2013 at 5:11 am #63995
Early in my management career I made a dubious choice for chief of a newly established budget branch. It was a disaster. The chief became known as Houdini for the ways he made money disappear and reappear. My crusty old advisor and senior boss told me, “You can’t make an accountant out of a longshoreman.” He was right. This was a variation of another x-rated expression we’ve heard. Something about chicken salad.
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February 21, 2013 at 1:01 pm #63993
Unless budgeting focuses first and foremost on allocating resources efficiently to achieve organizational bobjectives effectively, it is little more than bookkeeping. Unfortunately, too many executives look for accountants as budget chiefs. Exactly the wrong skill set for the job and the source of many organizational disasters.
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February 21, 2013 at 6:23 pm #63991
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain
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February 26, 2013 at 10:28 am #63989
‘Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.’ ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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March 10, 2013 at 1:29 pm #63987
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March 12, 2013 at 10:22 am #63985
“Remember, Facebook isn’t a platform for you to use — you are a platform for Facebook to use” Mathew Ingram
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March 16, 2013 at 6:55 pm #63983
“it means all enterprise technology in a data center is obsolete. AWS’ move points to the shift in the market and the higher value on services that leverage the cloud as opposed to significant investments in new and existing infrastructure.”
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March 17, 2013 at 12:27 pm #63981
Never waste your time explaining yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. From Twitter: ~dream hampton”
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March 19, 2013 at 10:10 am #63979
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire
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March 19, 2013 at 11:02 am #63977
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March 19, 2013 at 6:35 pm #63975
It is never to late to be what you might have been – Elliot
And what manner of nitwittery is about to plague me on the morrow?! – Wiley
Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. – Yoda
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March 24, 2013 at 11:31 am #63973
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March 27, 2013 at 9:26 am #63971
“It was hard for me to imagine that we could inspire high performance with no employee engagement.” Douglas Conant in an article in Working Knowledge from Harvard Business School
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April 3, 2013 at 11:38 am #63969
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anaïs Nin
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April 7, 2013 at 12:25 pm #63967
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.” Paulo Coelho
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April 7, 2013 at 12:29 pm #63965
“What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.” J. Sidlow Baxter
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April 21, 2013 at 1:32 pm #63963
“The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it” George Orwell
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April 22, 2013 at 7:45 am #63961
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” Ann Landers
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April 22, 2013 at 12:19 pm #63959
After the fiasco during the past 7 days in Boston this might be somewhat of an appropriate quote…
“CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.” ~G.K. Chesterton:
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April 25, 2013 at 11:37 am #63957
“Change is the only evidence of life.” Evelyn Waugh
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April 26, 2013 at 2:36 pm #63955
From SC magazine:
“Some companies still shy away from BYOD, and this could end up hurting them. Rather than dodging employee requests, security practitioners should be flexible and agile.” Barry Coatesworth, information security officer at retail website NewLook.com -
April 26, 2013 at 3:48 pm #63953
“lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas” numerous quotes
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May 1, 2013 at 2:18 pm #63951
“The highest type of ruler is one of whose existence the people are barely aware…. The Sage is self-effacing and scanty of words. When his task is accomplished and things have been completed, all the people say, ‘We ourselves have achieved it!'” Lao-Tzu wrote in the fifth-century BC
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May 1, 2013 at 7:23 pm #63949
“If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?” ~ Will Rogers
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May 6, 2013 at 12:15 pm #63947
“Scheduled performance appraisals put off focusing on measurable results until performance appraisal time. It’s event-based and keeps us from driving towards clear and measurable results on an ongoing basis. Performance appraisals leave room for subjective, not objective conversations. There is nothing agile or nimble about performance appraisals. Setting goals for a year out and expecting they will be relevant at the end of that time is ludicrous and a waste of time.” Jody Thompson of ROWE
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May 8, 2013 at 6:55 pm #63945
From Nick Foster‘s blog
We are undoubtedly in the Wild West era of 3D printing, but I think it’s right and proper that we question a system where an individual can make significant income from the sale of a part and have utterly no responsibility for the safety of the person buying it, or accountability for quality or environmental impact.
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May 9, 2013 at 5:55 pm #63943
“Real Success, does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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May 10, 2013 at 10:34 am #63941
“Ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes.” Dan Ariely
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May 13, 2013 at 11:56 am #63939
“Openness always wins.” Facebook’s Frank Frankovsky at Interop conference
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May 18, 2013 at 2:27 pm #63937
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May 21, 2013 at 10:34 am #63935
From the Harvard Business Review Blog: discussing the buyout of Tumblr by Yahoo
“Consumers have two choices: Exit and go elsewhere with their support or dollars, or use the power of voice to generate change from within. These two choices are mediated, by members’ loyalty to the institution. Loyalty makes people more likely to stay and work for change from inside. But loyalty is also a product of how effective a consumer’s voice is likely to be; it does not stem from feeling locked-in or having no possibility of exit.” Albert Hirschman
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May 23, 2013 at 1:59 pm #63933
“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could.” –Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance
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May 28, 2013 at 11:14 am #63931
from Fred Langa blog
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May 28, 2013 at 11:25 am #63929
“When people feel uncertain, they’d rather have somebody that’s strong and wrong than somebody who’s weak and right.” Bill Clinton
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May 30, 2013 at 7:41 pm #63927
“HR will be relentlessly supporting 100% autonomy and 100% accountability for the employee populations they work with. In addition, HR professionals will be banding together to push policy change on the federal level that better reflects how we are approaching work in the 21st century.” — Cali Ressler, of ROWE
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June 2, 2013 at 12:48 pm #63925
The social network wars are over. The winner: email! With every new social network and social service, with every new instant and not-so-instant way to communicate, email rises in importance. The reason is that with everybody choosing a different communications medium, email is increasingly the only one we all have in common. It’s the glue that holds the social Web together. Mike Elgan on Computerworld
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June 4, 2013 at 12:38 pm #63923
“Sure, it might be what you’ve always done. But that doesn’t make it true, or right, or best. It just means that you already tried it.”
Seth Godin
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June 5, 2013 at 11:55 am #63921
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June 6, 2013 at 7:32 pm #63919
Employees don’t leave companies. They leave managers.” from Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson new book How to get Employees to Manage Themselves
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June 12, 2013 at 2:38 pm #63917
” In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act “. ~ George Orwell
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June 24, 2013 at 1:55 pm #63915
In discussing some of the NSA leaks by Mr,. Snowden
“I can’t imagine there’s great harm to national security from these rules being out, if this helps us learn more about what the government’s doing, that’s probably a good thing.” William Banks in the NY Times
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July 1, 2013 at 6:01 pm #63913
“Technology is disruptive” Bruce Schneier Open line on 1 Hour YouTube Video Titled Security and Power
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July 2, 2013 at 12:05 pm #63911
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Roy Amara
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July 17, 2013 at 6:04 pm #63909
“There is nothing that is more harmful to civil liberties than terrorism. This discussion here has been quite sterile because we have not been talking about terrorism.” Rachel Brand a board member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board From the Guardian (Guess DOD and DHS employees will just have to take my word for it)
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August 21, 2013 at 2:44 pm #63907
Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
– Margaret Thatcher
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September 2, 2013 at 12:04 pm #63905
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ―Abraham Lincoln
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September 5, 2013 at 12:23 pm #63903
“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.” ~ Will Rogers from Quotationpages.com
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September 16, 2013 at 1:08 pm #63901
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never truly live if you are forever looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus
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September 18, 2013 at 11:30 am #63899
“The skill of management is to achieve your objectives through the efforts of others.” Harold Geneen
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September 20, 2013 at 6:52 pm #63897
“If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.” Jeff Bezos in an interview in/on the Motley Fool (read the article for 19 more “Gems“)
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September 21, 2013 at 9:19 pm #63895
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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September 23, 2013 at 2:24 pm #63893
+1
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September 23, 2013 at 5:48 pm #63891
“servant leadership” — meaning leaders are called to serve, not order people around. Tim Elkins CIO at Prime Lending
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September 24, 2013 at 7:32 pm #63889
“In a time of universal deceit , telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~ George Orwell
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September 25, 2013 at 2:28 pm #63887
“As workplace flexibility and virtual teams become the norm for getting things done, managers, team leaders, and executives will need to improve their skills and broaden their expectations,”
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October 1, 2013 at 7:29 pm #63885
“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position but Certainty is an absurd one “voltaire” from Good Reads:
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October 4, 2013 at 11:55 am #63883
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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October 4, 2013 at 12:45 pm #63881
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October 16, 2013 at 1:33 am #63879
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” ~ WC Fields
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October 17, 2013 at 12:08 pm #63877
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke
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November 1, 2013 at 12:09 pm #63875
“Most of the things we avoid are avoided because we’re afraid of being afraid.” Seth Godin
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November 2, 2013 at 11:58 am #63873
“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” James Madison
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November 26, 2013 at 9:46 am #63871
“The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.” ~ Mark Twain
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November 26, 2013 at 12:42 pm #63869
If there is no chance for failure, there is no chance for success. Darren Hardy Success Magazine
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November 28, 2013 at 10:59 am #63867
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” ~ George Orwell
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December 9, 2013 at 11:22 am #63865
“So…..once again, we are going to save money through consolidation no matter how much it costs.” DoD spokesman From NextGov:
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December 19, 2013 at 4:55 pm #63863
Life’s too short to not do awesome things
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December 21, 2013 at 1:55 pm #63861
“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” – Franz Kafka
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December 31, 2013 at 1:42 pm #63859
“Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.” Eleanor Crumblehulme
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January 6, 2014 at 1:40 pm #63857
“The more time you spend understanding the problem, the less time you’ll need to spend solving it”. Orin Thomas
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January 16, 2014 at 12:41 pm #63855
“True sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Albert Einstein
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January 19, 2014 at 8:41 pm #63853
“Reasonable man adapts himself to world/unreasonable one adapts world to himself. Progress depends on unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
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January 20, 2014 at 9:54 am #63851
“To save man from the morass of propaganda… Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction…; [and] to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society.” Dr Martin Luther King
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January 25, 2014 at 2:05 pm #63849
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Bill Gates
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January 25, 2014 at 8:14 pm #63847
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – @BillGates“
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February 14, 2014 at 8:11 pm #63845
“obscurity means insecurity.” Bruce Schneier
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February 28, 2014 at 3:44 pm #63843
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March 30, 2014 at 12:27 am #63841
“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” –Frank McKinney Hubbard from the Big Picture blog by Barry Ritholtz
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April 13, 2014 at 7:37 pm #63839
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” Clarence Darrow
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April 16, 2014 at 12:31 pm #63837
Too little process and you can’t get good work done. Too much process and you can’t get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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June 5, 2014 at 2:25 pm #63835
Although rather long probably could use some additional distribution
From Krebs on Security blog :
“We see a great deal of hand-waving and public discussion about the possibility that foreign cyber attackers may one day use vulnerabilities in our critical infrastructure to cause widespread problems in the United States. But my bet is that if this ever happens in a way that causes death and/or significant destruction, it will not be the result of a carefully-planned and executed cyber warfare manifesto, but rather the work of some moderately skilled and bored cracker who discovered that he could do it. ” Brian Krebs -
July 7, 2014 at 1:36 pm #63833
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Robert J. Hanlon amongst others
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July 11, 2014 at 7:17 pm #63831
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” –John F. Kennedy
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September 26, 2014 at 11:51 pm #233086
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
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