blogging - "Survival is not mandatory"

The habit of starting a book or a longer article with an applicable quote can work out pretty well. I'm just working on the second part of Mark Schaub's installment on fraud in China, called "the enemy within". This time - the article will be online by the end of the week - he uses a Chinese proverb:

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best

His first article had a quote of Donald Rumsfeld:

As we know there are known knows. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

But the best quote of today comes from Microsoft's superblogger, Robert Scoble. From the first chapter of his book on corporate blogging (co-authored by Shel Israel):

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."—W. Edwards Deming