just because you're hyperventalating ...

... doesn't mean you're right.

26

"The average age of the (NASA) systems engineers, the controllers on the day of the moon landing was 26."
- Al Gore

failure

"Al Gore who has had a ringside seat at the management of both Apple and Google, said that he deeply admires the founders of each company, but 'a genius' like Steve [Jobs] comes along only once in several generations. Jobs has demonstrated his genius over a longer period of time than [Larry] Page and [Sergey] Brin, he believes, and has also benefited from something the Google founders lack: 'Steve has the great if painful experience of failing, and coming back.' The wisdom that comes from failure has not yet punched Page and Brin."
- Ken Auletta, Googled: The End of The World as We Know It, p. 219

humility

Arriving at the Academy Awards, February 25, 2007

"Steve had a great setback in his life when he lost control of Apple in 1985. That experience of loss, that punch in the nose gave him a sense of humility and prepared him better for the battles ahead [he returned to Apple in 1997]."
- Al Gore, who is an Apple Board Member, on Steve Jobs.

wei ji

crisis ≠ opportunity

Contrary to Al Gore's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, there is no word that means both crisis and opportunity in Chinese. Explanation here.

another victim of the Spanish Civil War

Pablo Picasso's [1881-1973] Guernica depicts casualties of Fransico Franco's [1892-1975] coordinated Nazi bombing of civilians in 1937.

"Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk."

- Spanish poet Antonio Machado [1875-1939] was killed in the Spanish Civil War and was quoted by Al Gore [born 1948] in his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.