QUOTE A DAY - November 19, 2013

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

Just the quotes...

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator-computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.
--Gilles Deleuze

We could draw this curve: as we gain more data, how much better does our system get? And the answer is, it's still improving-but we are getting to the point where we get less benefit than we did in the past.
--Peter Norvig, Google Research Director

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
--General Omar Bradley


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
So let us reflect on what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that. The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities-warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful -- happier.
--Dalai Lama

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.
--Noam Chomsky

Falling cost presents an excellent opportunity to gain an advantage over those focused only on the top line or stuck in traditional business models. Avoiding disruption requires having very flexible expectations of cost and a careful eye for when cost suddenly falls away.
--Chris Taylor, Marketing Director of TIBCO


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can
no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: His eyes are closed.

ANSWER: Albert Einstein

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