Quote from: nffc on April 07, 2019, 01:12:14 PM
"let slip today after i burnt my porridge while spreadsheeting"

One of us

Sounds like a dickhead ;+}

If You Lose, Don't Lose The Lesson
- The Dali Lama (maybe)

"Being early is the same as being wrong."
-unknown source, probably someone who said it too early.

Quote from: littleman on April 29, 2019, 09:28:22 PM
"Being early is the same as being wrong."
-unknown source, probably someone who said it too early.

Agreed, i was 24 hours early for a job interview once, i didn't get it.

Ha!

Ha ha. Being early is a prediction error based on pessimism. Being late is a prediction error based on optimism

lol erg

QuoteCulture eats strategy for breakfast.

- Peter Drucker

I hadn't heard of this one before, but it was was mentioned by Avisash Kaushik in a recent analytics newsletter. He drilled down in to the meaning of culture, with quotes like:

QuoteCulture us the way we do things around here.

which gets trumped by:

QuoteCulture is how your employees behave when no one is watching.

Quote
It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.

The fictional Tyrion Lannister

QuoteI would estimate the chances are about 49 percent that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.

Jared Diamond in NY Mag - http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/jared-diamond-on-his-new-book-upheaval.html

One interesting thing about this - the models have gotten better, many assumptions have been overturned or massively retuned, but it's still the same date that the Club of Rome chose in The Limits of Growth in 1972.

As a father of four I do not like those odds.

Quote from: littleman on May 18, 2019, 06:11:51 PM
As a father of four I do not like those odds.

Did you read the continuation? He says:

QuoteI'll be dead by then but my kids will be, what? Sixty-three years old in 2050. So this is a subject of much practical interest to me.

>Did you read the continuation?

No, I've been sort of avoiding bad news the last few days.

Be careful of the toes you step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.

"They say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing all the time."

  -- Winnie the Pooh (in the trailer to the Christopher Robin movie)