>> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> >> To: <fredb...@fairpoint.net>; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" >> <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:35 PM >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example >> >>> [...] Wikipedia is one of the >>> biggest websites in the world. Obviously that is not how the reality of >>> our >>> success is measured. >> >> Of course not. The reality of its success would be: being a comprehensive >> and reliable reference source. It is not, yet. >> >> Peter > on 9/26/10 7:09 AM, Fred Bauder at fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
> When you're a big success it is very hard to continue to take the > necessary actions to achieve genuine greatness. The usual response to > suggestions of change is to circle the wagons. > Yes. And a part of true greatness is the willingness, and the limitless ability, to innovate and to evolve. Three quotes come to my mind regarding this: * - "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living." -- Gail Sheehy * - "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein And, to describe what the Project did in the beginning: * - "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marc _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
