“I don’t know about five years from now. I have no plans for that. Maybe I’ll be forgotten by then.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
2000-09, Ai Weiwei: A Rebel of Poet Roots, 2008
“I have no program, I have no five-year plan.”
Introducing "Chelsea Hotel #2"
Warsaw concert (1985)
Context: I have no program, I have no five-year plan. … It doesn’t mean that you shouldn't have one! I just move from hotel to hotel, and from bar to bar, and by the grace of the One above occasionally a song comes, and I remember sitting at this particularly obnoxious Polynesian restaurant where they served a kind of coconut drink that was particularly lethal and sinister which contained no alcohol but a certain chemical that demoralized you entirely. And I remember writing on one of their very badly designed napkins, "I remember you well at the Chelsea Hotel..." so I dedicate this song to one of the great singers, Janis Joplin.
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Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus
Source: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 20
“Its programs last, on average, only three to five years.”
Regina E. Dugan (1963) American businesswoman, inventor, and technology developer
“Special Forces” Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems (2013)
Context: Over the past 50 years, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has produced an unparalleled number of breakthroughs. Arguably, it has the longest-standing, most consistent track record of radical invention in history. Its innovations include the internet; RISC computing; global positioning satellites; stealth technology; unmanned aerial vehicles, or “drones”; and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), which are now used in everything from air bags to ink-jet printers to video games like the Wii. Though the U. S. military was the original customer for DARPA’s applications, the agency’s advances have played a central role in creating a host of multibillion-dollar industries.
What makes DARPA’s long list of accomplishments even more impressive is the agency’s swiftness, relatively tiny organization, and comparatively modest budget. Its programs last, on average, only three to five years.
“War is not included in the Second Five-Year Plan.”
Vasily Blyukher (1889–1938) Soviet military commander
Blyukher at the XVII Congress of the CPSU(b), 8 February 1934 http://www.hrono.ru/vkpb_17/25_5.html
“I have resolved the question of the Sahara which poisoned us for twenty-five years”
Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963) King of Morocco
Original French: J’ai réglé la question du Sahara qui nous empoisonnait depuis vingt-cinq ans. <br class="br">About the Western Sahara conflict in an Interview with Le Figaro–September 2001 http://www.maroc.ma/fr/discours-royaux/interview-accord%C3%A9e-par-sa-majest%C3%A9-le-roi-mohammed-vi-au-quotidien-fran%C3%A7ais-%C2%AB-le
“I have no plans, and no plans to plan.”
Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York
On his presidential plans New York Times (14 September 1986)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1938/oct/05/policy-of-his-majestys-government#column_366 in the House of Commons (5 October 1938) against the Munich Agreement <br class="br">The 1930s
Thorsten Heins (1957) German Canadian businessman
BlackBerry CEO Questions Future of Tablets http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-30/blackberry-ceo-questions-future-of-tablets.html in Bloomberg Technology (30 April 2013).
Eric Hobsbawm book The Age of Extremes
Source: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Sixteen, End of Socialism