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Bobby Knight Quote

August Jackson — Thu, 12 May 2005 11:17:33 +0000

There was a great quote from Bobby Knight in Todays Podcast which I thought was worthy of noting.

Most people have the will to win. Few have the will to prepare to win.

How true it is. Certainly in my working life I have found the wins and the losses seem to follow on how well the preparation has been done.

Remixing Your World Quote

August Jackson — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:34:37 +0000

I am way behind the curve on this, but I’m catching up on some of the podcasts that have been languishing in iTunes. One has a great quote that I wanted to capture and share. It’s from Rael Dornfest speaking at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference. A summary of his presentation can be found here.

The quote that really turns me on it is:

Given enough eyeballs, all features are obvious.

I think this is a really brilliant capture of hacker/consumers seeing new and interesting ways to modify and use products that even the producers or developers had not considered.

Quote: Malice v. Stupidity

August Jackson — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:21:48 +0000

Here’s another good quote I came accross, this time in a post by an Anonymous Coward on Macslash:

Don’t attribute to malice what can be more easily attributed to stupidity.

Once again I’m probably being amazed by something with which everyone else in the universe is likely familiar, but oh well. Being amused thusly has likely saved me money at some point in the past. I’m like the little kid who sets aside the toy to play with the box instead.

Another Good Quote

August Jackson — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 19:18:22 +0000

There’s a posting at Techrdirt about claims that “sucks” sites are as bad or even a bigger threat than hackers. The lone comment (at this moment) to the posting comes from Kevin Kadow, and is sufficiently clever I wanted to share:

“On the internet, your target demographic can shoot back.”

I’m not sure if Kevin is the originator of that phrase, but it’s a good one. Corporate PR types should keep that in mind.

Corollary to Murphys Law

August Jackson — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:29:33 +0000

Ive spent a good bit of the weekend catching up on podcasts from the previous week as I went about my weekend chore fest. There was this one particular quote that I thought was absolutely brilliant and I needed to capture and share. This comes from the Slashdot Review podcast that was published on Friday, 22 October. The story in question had to do with the reality of Murphys Law at NASA. I believe this is actually a universal element of complex systems or operations:

Human error is an inevitable input to any complex endeavor. Either you manage and design around it or fail.

Brilliant!