It is not the job of Search Engine Optimization to make a pig fly.

It is the job of the SEO to genetically re-engineer the web site so that it becomes an eagle. 

(Bruce Clay)

Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. 
C'est le début d'un piédestal.
   (Hector Berlioz)

Si tes rêves s’écroulent, ramasses les morceaux et garde-les. 

On peut trouver des éclats d’espoir parmi les débris des rêves brisés.  

(Cherry Hartman), Merci Claudine

Une petite impatience peut ruiner un grand projet. 
   (Confucius)

We're still heavily into the box. We love the box. We have amazing computers today, and amazing hardware in the pipeline. I still spend a lot of my time working on new computers, and it will always be a primal thing for Apple. But the user experience is what we care about most, and we're expanding that experience beyond the box by making better use of the Internet. The user experience now entails four things: the hardware, the operating system, the applications, and the Net. We want to do all four

   (Steve Job) 

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

However, I think we're going to do it, and I think that we must pay what needs to be paid. I don't think we ought to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will be done in the decade of the sixties. It may be done while some of you are still here at school at this college and university. It will be done during the term of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade.

Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.

John F. Kennedy Moon Speech - Rice Stadium  on September 12, 1962, -- http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm

Pressés comme des citrons, 

jetés comme des kleenex ... 

 (entendu sur Europe 1 ce matin)

It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic.
  (Jeff Eisenberg) 

Trying to increase sales simply by driving more traffic to a website with a poor customer conversion rate is like trying to keep a leaky bucket full by adding more water instead of plugging the holes.
  (Bryan Eisenberg, Call to Action)

HIPPO ? Highest Paid Persons Opinion, 

   (Avinash Kaushik)

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance  

    (Benjamin Disraeli) #linkedin

18 people were killed in Jackson that night. 10 white and 8 black. 
I don't think God has color in mind when he sets a tornado loose.
  (Aibileen Clark, in The Help / La couleur des sentiments)

If you keep your food in refregerator, 

            your clothes in a closet, 

If you have a bed to sleep in, 

and a roof over your head, 

You are richer than 75% of world population.

Appreciate what you have !

Winning is not everything but losing is hell !

(la loi d'airain du clan Kennedy, in "On a tiré sur le Président" de Philippe Labro)

Concision in style, 

precision in thought, 

decision in life.

  (Victor Hugo)

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
   (Robert H. Schuller)

How to make smarter decision ? 

The way is not the sky. 

The way is in the heart. 

Morano devrait lire Frederic Dard : 

"Traiter son prochain de con n’est pas un outrage, c’est un diagnostic" 

  (Stéphane Guillon)

By December it had become clear that Job's iCEO status had evolved from interim to indefinite.
(see also http://beariscool.blogspot.fr/2013/10/thats-why-i-dropped-interim-from-my.html#links)

There is always a way. 

If we wait until we're ready

we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Il ne faut pas laisser aux singes la gestion des "peanuts"

(...)

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. 

Winners visualize the rewards of success. 

(William S. Gilbert)

We have a "strategic plan". 

It's called doing things. 

(Herb Kelleher) #linkedin

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

(Unknown)

 

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. 

They said "Let us pray".

We closed our eyes.

When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. 

    (Desmond Tutu)

Play by the rules, but be ferocious. 

   (Phil Knight) #linkedin

The organization is clean and simple to understand, and very accountable. Everything just got simpler. That's been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  (Steve Job)

Done vs Perfect

Done is Better than Perfect 

Move Fast and Break Things

 (2 mottos from Facebook)

De la solitude pour mieux se retrouver. 
   (Bear)
... avec soi, avec les autres..

....

Tout ceci n'a qu'un temps 

Vivre dans l'excès à plein temps 

Oh! cesse de perdre ton temps 

Ou bien de brasser du vent 

Put down da gun down

...

    (NTM, Pose ton gun - lyrics)

We tend to focus much more.
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. 
But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. 
You have to pick carefully. 
I'm actually as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. 
 (Steve Job)

My job is to not be easy on people. 
My job is to make them better. 
My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. 
And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.
   (Steve Jobs)

Un jour, monsieur Hollande a dit que j'incarnais physiquement l'impôt. 
Désormais, il fait mieux que moi.
   (Alain Juppé)

That's why I dropped the ‘interim’ from my title. 

I'm still called iCEO, though, because I think it's cool.

(Steve Jobs,  Fortune, Jan. 24 2000)

    Why not iCEO - as iPad, iphone, ipod, iPay... 

Vu "Mon beau-père est une princesse". 

Bon moment. Quelques bonnes répliques. 

Un excellent Michel Aumont et un Didier Bénureau qui fait du (bon) Bénureau.

On ne va jamais aussi loin que lorsqu'on ne sait pas où l'on va.
    (Christophe Colomb)

Christophe Colomb fut le premier socialiste :
il ne savait pas où il allait, 
il ignorait où il se trouvait... 
et il faisait tout ça aux frais du contribuable 
    (Winston Churchill)

My pain me be the reason for somebody's laugh.

But my Laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. 

 (Charlie Chaplin)

BearIsCool,  how to use social media techno  - 1 post = 7 sites updated

On ne m'a jamais rien donné, même pas mon âge.  

  (Charles Aznavour)

Eh ! Ca va la vache ? 

(.. encore un palindrome)

Les Français préfèrent un mensonge bien dit à une vérité mal formulée. 

  (Cioran)

Et la marine va, papa, venir à Malte. 
   (...palindrome, alexandrin attribué à Victor Hugo).

Élu par cette crapule 

(... palindrome)

Speed limit (min=max=299,792,458 m/s  - for the light)

If you think that depending on the results of an experience or a study you will not change anything 
then forget the experience ! 
don't waste your time ! 
 (a - good - advice)

Cut yourself some slack. 

Pourquoi avons-nous parfois l'estomac dans les talons ou le compas dans l'œil ?

We can change the world and make it a better place. 

It is in your hands to make a difference. 

(Nelson Mandela) 

Celui qui combat peut perdre, 

mais celui qui ne combat pas a déjà perdu. 

  (Bertold Brecht) #linkedin

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words

than words without a heart. 

    (Mahatma Gandhi) #linkedin

Don't panic, 

Organize !

Technique alone is never enough. 

You have to have passion. 

Technique alone is just an embroidered pot holder.

  (Raymond Chandler)

- ai-je bien tout dans mon cartable ? netbook, mp3, clef USB, ipad... 

Papa, qu'utilisiez-vous au lycée ? 

- notre tête !

Life is like sea.

As vast as you can imagine, 

As deep as you can think, 

Don't waste time measuring your life. You won't succeed. 

Instead, explore life.

Reach for new harbours as you pass through different phases of life. 

Make friend on each destination. Enjoy your journey. 

La pyramide de Maslow revisitée à l’ère du Web ? 

 

Frankly sir, we're tired of being on the cutting edge of technology. 

Who needs Satan when you have a God like this? 

    (Robert M. Price)

Pourquoi lorsque l'on veut avoir de l'argent devant soi,

 faut-il en mettre de côté ?

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers 

who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animals,

 the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. 

  (Charles Darwin)

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Things on the front page 

vs 

Things people go to the site looking for. 

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. 
    (Quintilian)

Dont' let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. 

(Steve Jobs)

Ephese (Turquie) (visite le 12/10/13)

Souvenir de Colombo (sept 2013) - the Tripoli market

On a des moyens  ... mais on ne veut pas de moyens. 

On vend du rêve... mais on est pas des rêveurs. 

Tout n'est pas bon dans l'humain. 

(tag sur un mur de Malakoff)

Je vous salis, ma rue,
pleine de crasse.
 (Jacques Prévert, citation dans la Maison des Anges de Pascal Bruckner)

If at first you don't succeed, 

then maybe you should do it the way I told you to in the beginning. 

pour le plaisir des yeux ...mais attention dessous ! 

les apparences sont (parfois) trompeuses.

If you fall, I'll be there. - Floor

Janus,  divinité romaine, 

dieu des commencements et des fins, 

des choix, des clés et des portes.

Greatness is not decided by color, caste or creed. 

It is decided by deeds. 

 (Nelson Mandela)

There are over 7 billion people on earth

.... 

and you're going to let 1 person ruin your day ? 

Don't !

Everyone has ghosts

Don't let them chase you.

Extrait de DSI-Réalité, un article Olivier Sehiaud

Afin de circonvenir à la politique actuelle, nous sommes contraints de fédérer certaines organisations matricielles opportunes, parce que les mêmes causes produisent les mêmes effets
(petit délire du jour...)

The problem with the world is that

the intelligent people are full of doubts

while the stupid ones are full of confidence. 

(Charles Bukowski)

Comment peut-on faire pour dormir sur les deux oreilles ?

Une photo qui fait rêver BearIsCool !

"L'extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikéa"  de Romain Puértolas.  ... un côté déjanté et distrayant à la Tom Sharpe

- saviez-vous que Maupassant détestait la Tour Eiffel ? 
et il y mangeait tous les jours car c'est le seul endroit de Paris depuis lequel il ne pouvait pas la voir ... 


"J’ai quitté Paris et même la France, parce que la tour Eiffel finissait par m’ennuyer trop.

Non seulement on la voyait de partout, mais on la trouvait partout, faite de toutes les matières connues, exposée à toutes les vitres, cauchemar inévitable et torturant. Ce n’est pas elle uniquement d’ailleurs qui m’a donné une irrésistible envie de vivre seul pendant quelque temps, mais tout ce qu’on a fait autour d’elle, dedans, dessus, aux environs.

" (Guy de Maupassant, La vie errante)

Il y a différentes façon de ramer. 

A tout bien réfléchir, je préfère celle de droite.

Si ventus non est, remiga — If there is no wind, ROW !! 

Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère !

  (Molière dans les Fourberies de Scapin)

In an advanced course in Psychology taken some 30 years ago I learned that the human being is nine times more susceptible to rumour than it is to fact. 

(Unknown)

The more ridiculous the deadline

 the more money will be wasted trying to meet it. 

The project would not have been started 

if the truth had been told about the cost and timescale.

Everyone asks for a strong project manager.

When they get him they don't want him. 

The most successful project managers have perfected 

the skill of being comfortable being uncomfortable. 

Keeping calm and GRRRRRRR...!

People can make decisions based 
not on what they actually want to do, 
but on what they think that other people want to do, 
with the result that everybody decides to do something that nobody really wants to do, 
but only what they thought that everybody else wanted to do.  
   (Abilene paradox)

Pourquoi parle-t-on des quatre coins de la terre, 

puisque la terre est ronde ?

Life is like making tea : 

Boil you ego, 

Evaporate your worries, 

Dilute your sorrows, 

Filter your mistakes and 

Get taste of happiness. 

If you've never failed,

you've never tried anything new. 

Soyez résolus à ne plus servir, et vous serez libres.
      (Étienne de La Boétie)

Je ne vous demande pas de vous aimer, 

mais juste de vous aider les uns les autres.

 (François Hollande, il y a quelques mois, 

  et qui ne semble pas avoir porté ses fruits au vu de la 'cacaphonie' actuelle)

Every day may not be good

But there's something good in every day.

(but there's also the rule : "everything before but is bullshit...)