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One Liners

The following is a list of 'one liners' I like (that sometimes involve more than one line, but hey ho...)

 Good Advice

• "The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred."  - George Bernard Shaw
• "There is nothing so useless as doing that which does not need to be done at all." - Peter Drucker
• "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin (useful reminder to those who like to quote 'survival of the fittest'...)
• "In this industry [I.T.] we always over estimate what we can do in one year, and underestimate what we can do in ten." - Mark Benioff
• "In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffet
• "When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight." - Jack Welch
• ¨Most power occurs because one side is better organised than the other¨ - Seth Godin
• ¨If you want to persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason¨ - Ben Franklin
• ¨Anything is possible to the man who doesn't have to achieve it himself¨
• "The harder you train, the luckier you get."

There are Lies, Damned Lies, and then there are Statistics...

Ever heard the one 'If you don't measure it, it doesn't count'? (John Kenneth Galbraith)  Here are some alternatives:

• "People do what you count, not necessarily what counts." - John Seddon
• "A computer can tell you, down to the last dime, what you've sold.  But it can never tell you how much you could have sold" - Sam Walton
• "The difference between "Statistically Significant" and "Not Statistically Significant" is not in itself necessarily statistically significant." - Andrew Gelman
• "Weighing sheep won't make them any fatter." - Old Scottish Proverb

Internet Visionaries

• "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." - Marshall McLuhan, 1962!
• "The Internet is a reflection of our society... if we don't like what we see in that mirror, the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society." - Vincent Cerf

Don't forget to smile :-)

My late grandmother always had a smile for anybody and everybody.  This list is dedicated to her:

• "Even a broken clock is right twice a day."
• "Did you know, that after you die, your fingernails continue growing.  Toenails on the other hand..." "What? Toenails on the other hand?" - From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• "When all is said and done, there is more said and less done."  - unknown

And finally, you might find some of these mushy, but I like them:

• "Criticism is something we can avoid easily - by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle
• "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance." - H. Jackson Brown
• "The are two sorts of justice: one that gives everyone what they deserve; one that gives everyone what they need.  The first is only tolerable if the latter is seen to be met." - Charles Handy
• ¨Kindness helps the person who gives it. Anger works against the person who feels it¨ - 14th Dalai Lama, Lhamo Thondup
• "The greatest mistake you can make in your life is to be continually fearing you will make one" - Albert G. Hubbard
• "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not." - Isabel Allende