Call me a hopeless romantic but I still quite like this idea. It hasn't worn off, I don't see any major obstacles in the way. Who knows perhaps there's actually a serious book in this?
You know, I've always dreamed of having a book with my name on the front cover but frankly I don't seem to have the patience or talent to knock one up. Ever the slacker, maybe this is the way I achieve that goal but by getting other people to do the creative work for me. What a result. Aim for the sky, ain't anything wrong with that.
However, even if there isn't a book deal in this there's certainly an excellent web resource with "Unfamous Quotations" name written all over it. My suspicion is that people use the Web quite a bit for searching out quotations, whether for academic or business presentation purposes.
Imagine your own quotation and name appearing at the end of a career determining presentation given in some dusty office somewhere south of Bangkok, Sydney, Rio, New York or wherever.
These days you don't have to be an Einstein, Wilde, Carnegie, Plato or Socrates to get there, hell I'm guessing in the history of mankind that there's fewer than a thousand people ever to have a quotation recorded, what about the millions of other people outside that fence? If the Web enables one thing then it enables us to navigate around mammoth communications obstacles like "nobody wants to listen to you because you're not famous therefore piss off".
Make a name for yourself, speak forth your own "Unfamous Quote" and at worst you'll be "famous to fifteen people".
You know, I've always dreamed of having a book with my name on the front cover but frankly I don't seem to have the patience or talent to knock one up. Ever the slacker, maybe this is the way I achieve that goal but by getting other people to do the creative work for me. What a result. Aim for the sky, ain't anything wrong with that.
However, even if there isn't a book deal in this there's certainly an excellent web resource with "Unfamous Quotations" name written all over it. My suspicion is that people use the Web quite a bit for searching out quotations, whether for academic or business presentation purposes.
Imagine your own quotation and name appearing at the end of a career determining presentation given in some dusty office somewhere south of Bangkok, Sydney, Rio, New York or wherever.
These days you don't have to be an Einstein, Wilde, Carnegie, Plato or Socrates to get there, hell I'm guessing in the history of mankind that there's fewer than a thousand people ever to have a quotation recorded, what about the millions of other people outside that fence? If the Web enables one thing then it enables us to navigate around mammoth communications obstacles like "nobody wants to listen to you because you're not famous therefore piss off".
Make a name for yourself, speak forth your own "Unfamous Quote" and at worst you'll be "famous to fifteen people".