Year: 2007
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Bad Oops’s
Collection of memorable mishaps!via email from Duane McDowell, Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:59:56 -080
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Forecasting
There are only three basic forecasting methods: magic, hope, and mathematics. All three generate similar forecasts, which are basically wrong. Some are more wrong than others, but only mathematically based forecasts are suited to computerization. That doesn’t make them any better than forecasts produced in other ways, only more defensible.McGrath, J. 1991. Forecasting add-ins: garbage…
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Inventions
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.Henry David Thoreau
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Mid Life Crisis
Mid-life is when the growth of hair on our legs slows down. This gives us plenty of time to care for our newly acquired mustache. In mid-life women no longer have upper arms, we have wingspans. We are no longer women in sleeveless shirts, we are flying squirrels in drag. Mid-life is when you can…
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Google should buy the Ford Plant
A really good article outlining why the Ford Plant Site would be a good technology center is on Technology Evangelist. I second the motion.
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Tomfoolery
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no one dares criticize it.Pierre Gallois