Your Daily Quote [21st November 2007]
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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You have to love the irony of this quote, coming out at this exact time, surely. Well I do. How the hell did they manage to lose the data? Well, to be honest, they didn’t lose the data. The Royal Mail lost the data. Okay, I know I’m being pedantic, but it goes much deeper than that. The second they needed the send the data anywhere (geographically speaking) they lost it. Nothing is 100% bullet proof, and this is why people should relax. I will end my rant before it begins (I’m really tight on time today, my apologies) by posting the same comment I posted to the BBC website. Needless to say, this is the only place it will be approved…
“Wow. People seriously need to calm down, I mean just posting a comment is giving the BBC plenty of information about you…
And why does everyone think the information is going to be used malevolently? The parcel could be lodged down the back of some machinery for all we know.
In fact, this was probably the safest way to send the data. Nobody knew about this! Unless they marked the envelope ‘Private Details; Half the Populous of Britain’ who the Hell is going to know?
You people sicken me!”
And finally something from my future. As many of you are aware I very much hope to be self employed early on in my working life, and to do so I need to follow advice of others who have gone before me. Actually this quote is even better than that, because I read the book it came from. Awesome, no? I read a book. Can’t quite believe it myself.
All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.
Hugh Macleod
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