:: Slow's World ::

:: Sunday, September 05, 2004 ::

One thing we want to talk about is the importance of memory ... These
events are sadly about to pass out of the memories of the living. So, we think it's good to tell the story again for a new generation.

- Tim Harper about his new book, Forgotten Armies, as quoted by Felix Cheong in a 2 Sept 2004 Straits Times article "Cambridge Historian Tim Harper Revisits S'pore's WWII Past".
:: Slow 7:19 am [+] ::
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The difference between the employee & the professional is that the employee respects power while the professional respects knowledge.
:: Slow 10:39 am [+] ::
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Indeed, the dominance of time over space may be best thought of in relation to the landscape in and around Orchard Road, where scaffolding seems the only unchanging feature in a city that sees itself living in permanent transition. The scaffolding is at once a symbol of the ugliness and the breathtaking energy of the desire for renewal or 'speed', the desire to change rapidly and without remorse.
- Krishnan, Sanjay in 'Singapore: Two Stories at the Cost of One City' in Commentary: Journal of the National University of Singapore. 10(Dec 1992):81.
:: Slow 7:46 am [+] ::
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The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote into a top level job a man who was not making mistakes... otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.
- Peter Drucker.

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
- Thomas Henry Huxley.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
- Leo Burnett

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw in The Doctor�s Dilemma (1911).

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything.
- Herman Lincoln Wayland.
:: Slow 4:01 am [+] ::
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