Dan > Dan's Quotes

“Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There are few things truer in life than... you can not play a guitar after doing the dishes and you can't get anywhere in life with a negative mind.”
― K. Farrell St. Germain

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“In God we trust; all others bring data.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing”
― W. Edwards Deming

“dissatisfied customer does not complain: he just switches.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crises

“It is not enough to just do your best or work hard; You must know what to work on.”
― W. Edwards Deming