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A quote by Gandhi comes to mind when reading those seven steps. "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
by conqrr 10y ago
A quote by Gandhi comes to mind when reading those seven steps. "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
- hueving 10y agoOr you lose. But the people who experienced that outcome obviously weren't worth quoting.
- jfoutz 10y agoThe three gates are implicit in success. Perhaps you can pass gate 2, perhaps not. The insight is recognizing and passing the gates.
- mwfunk 10y agoUnfortunately people always haul this quote out as proof that because they're being ignored and ridiculed, they must be onto something and about to "win". It's supposed to be an inspirational quote to keep you motivated when it feels like the whole world is against you, but whenever I see it used (on online forums at least) it's always by someone who seems to think that it not only has predictive power, but it somehow illustrates the inevitability of the total dominance of desktop Linux (or whatever they're insisting is inevitable). I've seen that quote so preposterously misused over the last 20 years, over and over and over again as a form of argumentation, that I fear it's lost all meaning at this point. :(