Posts tagged quote
Posts tagged quote
Warning: If you are a large group of lads coming to Berlin to drink yourselves into a coma and dress up in superhero costumes, this isn’t the hotel for you.
-Michelberger Hotel
I don’t like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself.
When someone is seeking it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing he is seeking; that is he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is thinking only of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
There’s a fine line between wrong and visionary. Unfortunately you have to be a visionary to see it.
An idealist believes that the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
- Sidney J. Harris
So, it looks like I’m not very happy when I get quoted…
Back in September 2008 at Web2.0Expo in New York City a NY Times reporter interviewed me for a good 5 minutes just after I spoke with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures. What appeared in the article was just this:
“I waited as if he was a very good-looking girl,” said Fabio De Bernardi, a London entrepreneur who slipped him a business card and hoped to pitch a shopping site.
WTF!! However, my humor is quite lousy some times…
Today I discovered another quote and unfortunately it hasn’t gone much better.
A while back I commented on Twitter about a so-called unfair/unethical SEO move perpetrated against the start up where a brilliant friend of mine works. In short the story is here: http://twitpic.com/191fq - My comment under the picture started a storm in a teacup (you wondered why I picked that title eh?) and here’s the final act, a blog post “against” the SEO dirtiness (a nice article, but missing some of the really dirty SEO malpractices in my opinion) quoting my infamous sentence…
“C’mon, it’s fair,” berated one entrepreneur. “They try to get the same audience! Do the same back!”
Honestly I preferred the quote in the NY Times even if they didn’t publish neither the name nor the link to my start up…
After all (if you had the patience to read the whole story and make up your mind) I still think I’m right. A competitor is after your same audience (pretty much) and he buys your company name as a keyword. Now… a) there’s nothing so scandalous about it (also because the ad wasn’t deceiving) and b) if I’m searching for the name of a company and the first natural result is clearly what I was looking for, why in the world should I bother to look on the sponsored links??
Whatever.
