“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”
George Bernard Shaw
(in any collection of quotes, it’s inevitable for him to pop up sooner or later)
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
Allen Saunders, American writer, journalist and cartoonist
(usually mis-attributed to John Lennon, who used it later)
For my job, I regularly have to travel to various countries across Europe and often this involves spending one or a few nights in a hotel room. Which usually come with a decent bathroom (I’m not going to go into the details of the time when a room pre-booked room turned out to come with something called a shared bathroom – suffice it ot say that the core problem is that it is cleaned only once a day, not after each indidual use of the shared facility).
Using most of the equipment in those bathrooms in a proper way is pretty straightforward, although flushing the toilet can require several attempts of pushing or pulling things that are part of or can be found in the vicinity of the toilet. Continue reading
“In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.”
FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (in the 90s cult TV series Twin Peaks)
“Done is better than perfect.”
Hard to attribute, but made famous by Mark Zuckerberg
When was the last time you went through your collection of printed photos? In this age of digital a lot of people stopped making actual prints of their pictures somewhere in the last decade or so. Probably you still have some albums somewhere in a closet, but not much has been added to them of late.
Not that we’re all making less pictures than we used to. On the contrary: more photos are taken with an increasing amount of devices. But we simply stopped spending money on printing them in large volumes. Still every once in a while I now find myself browsing through folders filled with pictures on various screens. And that’s exactly what I was doing a few days ago… when I suddenly made this AMAZING DISCOVERY. Continue reading
“Life it aint real funky
Unless it’s got that pop
Dig it”
Prince (from the 1985 song Pop Life)
“The next five years are going to be about how well a brand can actually change a relationship from one that looks at how many people are in their database (and how to target them more effectively with advertising messages)… to one focusing on precisely who those individuals are and how the brand can make the connection with them even stronger.”
Mitch Joel in Ctrl Alt Delete (on what it will take businesses to survive)
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
James Russell Lowell (19th century American poet)
“As a human being, you have received for free your personal copy of the most wonderful and powerful tool in the world: the human brain. You should really consider using it properly from time to time.”
taken from: Jan’s brain
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