Bøger af Bob Seeman

This easy-to-read book contains famous quotations and jokes about money and trust, including: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."- Yogi Berra"In God we trust, all others pay cash."- Jean Shepherd"The primary reason people believe in anything is because others believe."- Brian Norgard"Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don't want to impress people that they don't like."- Will Rogers"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."- J. Paul Getty"If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?"- Steven Wright"When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is."- Oscar Wilde

Famous quotations and humor about risk, courage, bravery, and decision-making."Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."- Thomas A. Edison"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.On such a full sea are we now afloat.And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."- William Shakespeare"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived."- Franz Kafka

This book is fun to read. The colored illustrations will bring back happy memories from childhood years. It is Æsop's fables dressed up for the bitcoin age, perfect as a coffee table book. It makes a great gift, especially for all those hoodwinked by the bitcoin craze. The book contains 48 all-time favorite fables including: - The Goose and the Golden Egg- The Pied Piper- The Miser- The Milkmaid and the Milk- The Tortoise and the Hare- The Proud Man's New Clothes- The Boy Who Cried Wolf- The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse- The Lion and the Asses- The Oak and the Reeds- The Wolves and the Sheep- The Oxen and the Wheels- The Travelers and the Purse- The Dog and the Bone- The Old Lion and the Fox Each fable is accompanied by a moral to live by and a picture in color. Æsop's fables are very applicable to the bitcoin era."Like Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince, Satoshi's Fables is a little book with colorful pictures for children and important life messages. The fables about animals teach about human motives, risks, and wisdom. It particularly speaks to the bitcoin madness."- Jonathan Shyster, ex-bitcoin promoter

This easy-to-read book provides a high level introduction for non-technical executives of an organization to some of the issues surrounding cybersecurity. In particular, this book will convey why the organization should retain professional cybersecurity experts to advise on the particular requirements of the organization. Companies must hire professional cybersecurity experts and rely solely on their professional advice. Cybersecurity involves a vast number of detailed and complicated issues. A detailed discussion would be many extremely thick books that would be almost unintelligible to a non-technical person. Cybersecurity is a profession that takes many years of study and hands-on experience. It continually evolves. This book will help executives better understand: some of the key issues involved, why to hire cybersecurity professionals, what those professionals are recommending, and what questions to ask them. It is a non-technical introduction to the actual practice of cybersecurity.About the AuthorBob Seeman is the Managing Partner of CyberCurb and a Director of the Cyber Future Foundation Canada, an international collaboration of industry, public agencies and academia to build a more trusted and secure internet. Bob is also a Mentor at the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst. He advises boards of directors on cybersecurity and also cybersecurity companies. Bob has also published Who am I Not?, Ransomware Risk Mitigation for the Board, and the foremost bitcoin-skeptic book, The Coinmen, which details how cryptocurrency is used for ransomware payments. He is a California attorney, electrical engineer, and board director. Bob is a co-founder of RIWI Corp. which conducts data analytics, and he has advised governments internationally on technology and business issues. Previously, he was Head of Strategy for Microsoft Network in London, and a technical consultant to the European Commission. Bob previously practiced administrative and regulatory law with the now Norton Rose Fulbright, a global law firm. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Elec. Eng.) with Honours from the University of Toronto, a Master of Business Administration from EDHEC, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of British Columbia.

Over 100 quotations from the top thinkers in physics, including: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."- Albert Einstein"Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics."- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."- Werner Heisenberg"The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.' "- Richard Feynman"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."- James Lovelock"Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists."- David Finkelstein"Quantum physics tells us that no matter how thorough our observation of the present, the (unobserved) past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."- Stephen Hawking

With the release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, artificial intelligence - or AI - became all the rage. This book includes important quotations about AI by the Artificial Intelligentsia, people from many different academic disciplines who also understand other disciplines. The Artificial Intelligentsia have the Interdisciplinarian Perspective: they come, not just from technology backgrounds, but also from philosophy, art, language, writing, entertainment, astronomy, science, and business. The quotations illustrate how advances with AI will continue to result from the Artificial Intelligentsia who possess the Interdisciplinarian Perspective. Many of the Interdisciplinarians quoted in this book disagree on many fundamental issues surrounding AI, including on the whether AI will improve the lives of humans - or destroy humans forever. Each quotation is followed by a funny limerick - written by the human author of this book. AI does not yet have a funny bone. Rest assured that humans will be making funnier limericks than AI for a very long time.About the authorBob Seeman is the Managing Partner of CyberCurb and a Director of the Cyber Future Foundation Canada, an international collaboration of industry, public agencies and academia to build a more trusted and secure internet. Bob is also a Mentor at the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst. Bob also has published Who am I Not?, Power in Mistakes, On Trust, and the foremost bitcoin-skeptic book, The Coinmen. He is a California attorney, electrical engineer, and board director. Bob is a co-founder and former director of RIWI Corp., a public company that conducts data analytics, and has advised governments internationally on technology and business issues. Previously, he was Head of Strategy for Microsoft Network in London, and a technical consultant to the European Commission. Bob previously practiced administrative law with an international law firm. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Elec. Eng.) with Honours from the University of Toronto, a Master of Business Administration from EDHEC, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of British Columbia.--

A carefully crafted and explained selection of 100 quotations by famous and successful people about mistakes that they have made, including: "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made, in a narrow field."- Niels Bohr"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."- Albert Einstein"Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people."- Zig Zigla"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."- Franklin P. Jones"Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm"- Winston Churchill (attributed)"I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong."- Charles M. Schulz"In politics, as in grammar, the mistake that everyone makes is declared the rule."- André Malraux"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850"- Henry Kissinger"If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for."- Amit Kalantri"Live as if you were living for the second time and as if you had made a lot of mistakes the first time."- Viktor Frankl

Trust is a vital issue in our society, more so lately as we communicate online with strangers whose premises and motives are unknown to us. More and more tweets, emails and LinkedIn messages come to us from unknown sources for reasons that may be friendly, but may also be hostile. Some are scams; some are cyberattacks on our businesses. Personal relationships are built on trust but trust can be betrayed. So many of us who put our trust in government, companies, charitable institutions, media outlets, and fundamental human values have felt hoodwinked at times. I have a stake in trust because I have seen strong friendships fall apart over differences in political opinion, differences in religious beliefs, differences in how we interpret the news. We are all unique individuals, and, sometimes, that uniqueness gets in the way of trust. I, personally, value diversity of opinion but, in today's climate, there seems to be a mandate to follow a party line. Free thinkers aren't trusted. For all these reasons, I have researched and compiled in this book some of the most relevant quotations about trust throughout the ages. I hope that this wisdom of the ages will help people trust the trustworthy and remain wary of the criminals. There is a quotation here for most every situation. Always remember that ancient Russian proverb, "Trust but Verify".