【職場點滴】Konstantin Josef Jirecek quote

Found this interesting sticky note on someone desk.

“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”

 

Did a little search and find out: This quote is fairly popular in engineering and manufacturing world, but I think it pretty much fits in everywhere at some degree except 梅雨潭.  

The deeply cynical and accurate quote about public service is widely attributed to Konstantin Josef Jirecek, a Czech historian from more than 100 years ago, who writes about Bulgaria .And the quote is not entirely accurate: “we, the unwilling” is more like “we, the capable ones” and “unknowing” is more like “ignorant”. All true... but it flows so much better this way.

― Konstantin Josef Jirecek