Thanks for the latest release. I enjoyed The Carbonaro Effect. Hilarious!

Choy

Actually it is..

The greatest burden in life is to know of another opportunity.

This quote is so good on so many levels…Spiritually and in the business world.

It’s the last thing in my business emails but before the legal jargon of…if this email doesn’t belong to you….

Anyway… I think this quote, gets my readers thinking…which helps, especially since I market and sell paving strategies.

Feel free to use it as well.

Sam

I often read catchy sayings and quotes and like you will repeat them and try to give proper credit as to who said it…the quote below is a good one but there is no way …in my thinking that A. Einstein could say something so ingenious…even though he was a genius…but I wasn’t sure so I ran the quote through a search engine and this is what I found…

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Can you please tell me if it was said or written by him?

Quote Investigator: There is no substantive evidence that Einstein made this statement. It does not appear in the comprehensive collection of quotations “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein” from Princeton University Press. 1

My thinking was…as brilliant as A. Einstein was, he wasn’t a technology kind of guy…does that make sense?

The article goes on to say…

The earliest evidence of a closely matching quotation known to QI was in a 1995 movie called “Powder” which was written and directed by Victor Salva and starred Sean Patrick Flanery as the main character whose strong paranormal powers drove the plot. Flanery played Jeremy Reed who had an albino-like appearance and was given the nickname Powder. Near the end of the film there was a dialog between Reed and a character named Donald Ripley, a physics teacher played by Jeff Goldblum. The quotation was delivered by Ripley and then Reed immediately ascribed it to Einstein: 2

Donald Ripley: It’s become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
Jeremy Reed: Albert Einstein.
Donald Ripley: I look at you, and I, I think that someday our humanity might actually surpass our technology.

The statement in this dialog is not identical to the one given by the questioner. For example, Ripley’s remark used the words “clear” and “surpassed” while the questioner’s instance used the words “obvious” and “exceeded”. But semantically they are quite close.

Anyway, keep up the great work Raoul. You are a blessing to so many people.

A quote I use often in my presentations and I use at the end of my business emails…

The greatest burden in life is to know of a better opportunity.

Credit is unknown, I saw this as a high school football player in the visiting locker room way back in the day… I have never forgotten it…it’s one of two of my all time favorite quotes…the other one I’ll tell you later. lol

Cheers

Sam