Quotation of the day for May 27, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 27, 2016 "I was at the National Restaurant Show yesterday and if you look at the robotic devices that are coming into the restaurant industry -- it's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who's inefficient making $15 an hour bagging French fries -- it's nonsense and it's very destructive and it's inflationary and it's going to cause a job loss across this country like you're not going to believe." - Ed Rensi, former McDonald's USA CEO, during an interview on the FOX Business Network's Mornings with Maria. [http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/05/24/fmr-mcdonalds-usa-ceo-35k-robots-cheaper-than-hiring-at-15-per-hour.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 26, 2016

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Quotation of the day for May 26, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 26, 2016 "It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak. By climbing the seven summits we want to prove that vegans can do anything and more." - Maria Strydom, a vegan and an experienced mountain climber, who died of high-altitude pulmonary edema on Mount Everest on May 21, 2016. [http://time.com/4344556/mount-everest-death-climbing-vegan/] Submitted by: Rob Wood May 24, 2016

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Quotation of the day for May 20, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 20, 2016 "Contrast the "maximize shareholder value" idea with John F. Kennedy's famous 1961 call to "put a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade." Simple? Yes. Unexpected? Yes. Concrete? Amazingly so. Credible? The goal seemed like science fiction but the source was credible. Emotional? Yes. Story? In miniature. "Had John F. Kennedy been a CEO, he would have said, "Our mission is to become the international leader in the space industry through maximum team-centered innovation and strategically targeted aerospace initiatives." Fortunately, JFK was more intuitive than a modern-day CEO; he knew that opaque, abstract missions don't captivate and inspire people. The moon mission was a classic case of a communicator's dodging the Curse of Knowledge. It was a brilliant and beautiful idea -- a single idea that motivated the actions of millions of people for a decade." - Chip and Dan Heath, from their book Made to Stick. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 19, 2016

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Quotation of the day for May 14, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 14, 2016 "Stink is a situation that TV and radio cannot successfully portray, olfactory being one of the senses not yet conquered by the airwaves or Internet. And until The Times-Picayune can successfully produce a scratch-'n'-sniff version of the daily newspaper -- and this technology still seems to be at least three or four years down the road -- we can only fail in our efforts to accurately capture the foulness of some of these street corners." - Chris Rose, from his memoir of post-Katrina New Orleans, 1 Dead in Attic. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 13, 2016

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Quotation of the day for May 12, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 12, 2016 "We love Netflix. We're customers because we love your services and we love supporting creators. Watching quality content, and knowing that creators are being compensated in the process is great. "But we also love our privacy. "And lately, as your subscribers, you just haven't been treating us well. Over the past few months, Netflix has begun blocking VPN users from accessing any content in the Netflix library, as a way to enforce national licensing restrictions. This is a huge problem for our privacy-conscious supporters, who use VPNs as an essential, user-friendly tool to protect their privacy in a post-Snowden world." - Laura Tribe, a Digital Rights Specialist at OpenMedia, in an open letter to Netflix about their efforts to prevent users of virtual private networks (VPN) from accessing Netflix content. [https://act.openmedia.org/netflix] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 11, 2016

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Quotation of the day for May 6, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 6, 2016 "The software is functioning as intended," said Amber. "Wait," I asked, "so it's supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?" "Yes," she replied. - James Pinkstone, recounting a conversation with an Apple rep after Apple Music deleted 122 GB of music files from his laptop. [https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 5, 2016

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Quotation of the day for May 5, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 5, 2016 "One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency; who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint. They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths. It is a double tragedy: what begins as a survival strategy ends with the compromise of the human being it sought to preserve and the diminishing of the democracy meant to justify the sacrifice." - Edward Snowden, in the foreword to the recently published book about drone warfare, The Assassination Complex. [https://theintercept.com/2016/05/03/edward-snowden-whistleblowing-is-not-just-leaking-its-an-act-of-political-resistance/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 4, 2016

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Quotation of the day for May 3, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 3, 2016 "Most of what I try fails, but these failures are often invisible, while the successes are visible. I have noticed that this sometimes gives others the impression that most things work out for me. As a result, they are more likely to attribute their own failures to themselves, rather than the fact that the world is stochastic, applications are crapshoots, and selection committees and referees have bad days. This CV of Failures is an attempt to balance the record and provide some perspective." - Johannes Haushofer, a professor at Princeton, from his CV of Failures. [http://www.princeton.edu/haushofer/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 2, 2016

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Quotation of the day for May 1, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for May 1, 2016 "I don't wake up every morning, as some people here in Washington do and say, "You know, I really have to be president of the United States. I was born to be president of the United States." What I do wake up every morning feeling is that this country faces more serious problems than at any time since the Great Depression, and there is a horrendous lack of serious political discourse or ideas out there that can address these crises, and that somebody has got to represent the working-class and the middle-class of this country in standing up to the big-money interests who have so much power over the economic and political life of this country." - Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator and Presidential hopeful, in an interview with The Nation. [http://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-i-am-prepared-run-president-united-states-updated-march-19/] [Happy May Day from qotd! -eds.] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 1, 2016

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