“Marketing is far too important to be left only to the marketing department!.”
David Packard (1912–1996) American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, businessman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense,…
David Packard cited in Philip Kotler (2000), Marketing Management, Millenium Edition. p. 13
Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave
Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 20)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Context: A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; — such is our personality.
“While we have footprints on the sands of time, there is no trace of things yet to come.”
Varadaraja V. Raman (1932) American physicist
TIME: CEASELESS PROGRESSION:
Truth and Tension in Science and Religion
“When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.”
Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States
Source: The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
