Orban Quotes

following the playbook of strongmen such as Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who silenced the press not by imposing censorship but by imposing financial pressure on independent news organizations to either force them out of business or into the hands of friendly owners.47

M-a întristat, pentru că mi se pare incredibil cum se modifică reacțiile oamenilor în funcție de ceea ce simt unul față de celălalt.

An enterprise must transform by changing its culture, changing its bureaucracy, changing its organization, changing its technical architecture—and making them agile.

Toată viața am încercat- și mi-a reușit, de cele mai multe ori să fiu discretă. Poate de la mama e chestia asta, și acum țin minte cum zicea mereu ca să nu mai vorbesc tare că ne aud vecinii (...) mai încet, că ne știe toată lumea, totul trebuia să se petreacă ușor și pe muțenie. Oricum, am încercat întodeauna să trec neobservată. Nu am vorbit niciodată în public despre evenimente care mă priveau personal(...) Sunt femeia de pe margine, le-am spus mereu și celor pe care i-am iubit , ca un fel de avertisment, sunt în afară mai mereu, acolo e zona mea de confort. O vreme mi-a și plăcut așa, eram un fel de observator neutru, nu mă implicam prea mult, nu doream prea mult, era mai sigur. În timp, însă, am trecut în cealată extremă. Am ajuns să urăsc cumințenia asta idioată care mă caracterizează, incapacitatea de a mă exterioriza, de a-mi savura plăcerile. Timiditatea, frustrările, orgoliul stupid. La mine totul se consumă încet, parcă în reluare. Între gesturi și emoțiile sau gândurile care le-au provocat există o distanță suficent de mare, încât să se ducă dracului orice urmă de spontaneitate. Calmul meu nu este calm, liniștea mea nu este o liniște, sub aparențele astea există o viermuială de gânduri, presupuneri, temeri. Tac mai mereu, dar e o tăcere care mă sufocă.

Can Trump really promote free markets in the U.S. while undermining free trade on the global level? Can the Chinese Communist Party continue to enjoy the fruits of economic liberalization without making any movement toward political liberalization? Can Hungarians have democracy without personal liberties, or is Orban’s “illiberal democracy” just a nicer way of saying “dictatorship”? Can international peace survive in a world of rising border walls and intensifying trade wars?

Putin was a new modern “strongman,” Peskov said, an archetype who was spawning imitations across the globe. “People around the world are tired of leaders that are all similar to each other. There’s a demand in the world for special sovereign leaders, for decisive ones who do not fit into general frameworks,” the Kremlin spokesman explained. “Putin’s Russia was the starting point.” Others that fit the mold included Viktor Orban in Hungary, Xi Jinping in China, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, and Recep Tayyip Erdog˘an in Turkey.

The current systems have failed to provide answers for citizens, and people are looking outside of the mainstream political spectrum. These dissatisfactions are now being used by right-wing, nativist, opportunist, corrupted, cynical political players. The same ones who helped create and stoke all of this now offer salvation. That's their game. It's the same strategy as defunding a program or regulatory agency they want to get rid of, then holding up its resulting ineffectiveness as evidence that it needs to be folded. If nationalist aggression, closed borders, exceptionalism of any kind really worked for society, North Korea would be the most prosperous country on earth. They have never really worked, but we keep buying it. That's how we got Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, Orban, etc. In Russia, President Putin is playing these games too: he exploits the complex of rage, pain, impoverishment of the Russian people caused by the shock economy and the Machiavellian privatization and deregulation that took place in the 1990s.

To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences. Naturally, for it to function as its exponents wished it to function, this could never be admitted. The West, over the duration of its global hegemony, had become skilled in the art of repackaging Christian concepts for non-Christian audiences. A doctrine such as that of human rights was far likelier to be signed up to if its origins among the canon lawyers of medieval Europe could be kept concealed. The insistence of United Nations agencies on "the antiquity and broad acceptance of the conception of the rights of man” was a necessary precondition for their claim to a global, rather than a merely Western, jurisdiction. Secularism, in an identical manner, depended on the care with which it covered its tracks. If it were to be embraced by Jews, or Muslims, or Hindus as a neutral holder of the ring between them and people of other faiths, then it could not afford to be seen as what it was: a concept that had little meaning outside of a Christian context. In Europe, the secular had for so long been secularised that it was easy to forget its ultimate origins. To sign up to its premises was unavoidably to become just that bit more Christian. Merkel, welcoming Muslims co Germany, was inviting them to take their place in a continent that was not remotely neutral in its understanding of religion: a continent in which the division of church and state was absolutely assumed to apply to Islam

Did Churchill speak Italian? Did he know one single word of it? Would he have given his order if he’d formulated it in Augusto’s language? Do we dare, once we’ve made the effort to translate our thoughts into the words of another, condemn them to exile? Send them to their death?

Scylla and Charybdis. From misremembering the Mythology lessons at St Peter’s School – unless it was at Copenhagen Street – I believed for a long time that these names referred to innocent rocky islets at the entrance to the Straits of Messina in Sicily. Two columns forming Italy’s southern gate, in this Mare Nostrum glorified by il Duce. And I thought that if pillars like these existed in London they would be, on the one hand, Clerkenwell, the Little Italy where we lay rotting, and then Soho, the capital’s other Italian neighbourhood, at once sulphurous and more dazzling.

When are you going to join us, Vera? History is done. It’s time for stories.’ […] It was during one of these exchanges that Seymour called me. And he was the one who came out of the nightclub and took me in. He spoke to me amidst the clatter of glasses and shouting revellers. I only understood half of what he was saying. The same went for him I’m sure. He’d been drinking, passed me his whisky, ordered another, chatted me up for a bit, gesticulated and sketched out the years to come: ‘No more blood, toil, tears and sweat,’ Churchill’s words at the start of the war, and I wondered whether, perhaps it was true, a page was turning – Winston’s, left in his war room with his fingers in a victory sign and a cigar in his mouth.

A lady, the ambassador’s wife perhaps, Mamma Italiana as we were told to call her, but perhaps the befana now landed and alighted from her broom – a tall woman, all dressed in black – moves towards the table. Her steps echo along the floor. She sways her hips and slowly walks on. You could say she exhibits in the room like a swan, a black swan on the edge of a lake, about to glide across the water. Her long, gloved forearm stretches out towards the table. Why is it that I only remember my name as if she’d called out just the one? Why is it that I only remember my name, as if it were the only one she called out? […] I suddenly existed, within the community where, at the end of the day, we all swarmed around like tadpoles.

They were taken onto the wharves in the port. They numbered more than a thousand. Germans, Austrians, Italians and soldiers. The crew awaited them on the ship. A long gangway led up to it. But what struck Augusto was the immensity of the overhanging hull. He couldn’t recall having seen any others as high as this. Not in Trieste, twenty years earlier; boats weren’t as tall back then. Nor at the Isle of Dogs, as boats there were meant to navigate the river. The men on the quay were ants. A thousand ants waiting to board. Augusto looked upward towards the prow. At the end of the hull something was written. The ship’s name. But he couldn’t read it. I can, though, at the front of the liner. Arandora Star.

The Ottomans were probably already casting guns at Edirne by this time; what Orban brought was the skill to construct the molds and control the critical variables on a far greater scale.

Did you know that the American Red Cross was able to handle the huge volume of phone calls after Hurricane Harvey partly because it spun up a new cloud-based call center in just 48 hours?

Mi nem leszünk jámbor lúzerek.

However, a master founder by the name of Orban, who was either Hungarian or German, claimed to have discovered the secret of casting

The hardest thing about getting started is getting started." -Guy Kawasaki

Remember-"All of your constraints are debatable.

Het Hongaarse Budapest is de veiligste stad van Europa. Zou dat te maken hebben met het strenge immigratiebeleid van Orban? Want meer immigratie = meer criminaliteit!

Getting to cloud effectively means you need to figure out DevOps, but DevOps is often a re-org, not adding or re-naming a team. The whole organization needs to be recruited and compensated with an aligned strategy and rewards to get the culture right.

The right culture also unlocks internal talent, because you don’t add innovation to a company—you get out of its way. An executive once told me “We can’t copy Netflix because we don’t have the people.” My response was “Where do you think they used to work? We hired them from you and got out of their way…

To survive in the current business environment, you have to be able to take advantage of evolving technology trends, and the one thing that’s been constant the last 10 years—and I believe will continue to be constant the next 20 or 30 years—is that technology is going to continue to change at a rapid pace.

You get the culture you pay for.” As we work on technology migration with enterprises, it’s usually people and processes that are the blockers, not technology problems.

six approaches to be the most common: ​Rehosting (otherwise known as “lift-and-shift”) ​Replatforming (I sometimes call this “lift-tinker-and-shift”) ​Repurchasing (migrate to a different product/license, often SaaS) ​Refactoring (re-architect or re-imagine leveraging cloud-native capabilities) ​Retire (get rid of) ​Retain (do nothing, usually “revisit later”).

not about a transformation that has a finite end state. It’s about becoming an organization that is capable of quickly deploying technology to meet business needs, regardless of where the technology comes from.

It’s not enough to think it’s a good idea. It’s not enough to talk about it. It’s not enough to get a few of your leaders to agree with you.

transformation is hard. But not quite as hard as you’d think.