“ I think innovation is overrated. Customers don’t care about how innovative you are. They just want to be happy and satisfied. And that’s about good design. The best advice I can give is to focus on people and their problems. Few great innovators worried about anything else. The fact that they found a new idea had more to do with their passion for solving someone’s problem than anything else. Innovation is a huge distraction these days.
Debunking the Myths of Innovation: An Interview with Scott Berkun
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“ Productivity is for machines. If you can measure it, robots should do it.
/Message: Kevin Kelly on Productivity
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
“ written on the packet of guitar strings Tom Sharp bought were the words: “Rotosound strings are manufactured in England and are subject to finite quality control.” This is fortunate, Sharp observes, “as otherwise they would never leave the factory”.
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The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. -Lao Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything --anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in. -Sam Harris, author (1967- )
George Bernard Shaw wrote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Zig Ziglar:
“Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down, or
polishes you up, depends upon what you are made of!”
“Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down, or
polishes you up, depends upon what you are made of!”
Theodore Roosevelt from 1899 –
“Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to
take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.”
“Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to
take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.”
From the journal of the Royal United Services Institute dated July 2007: “Even if looking into the future can be demonstrated usually to be futile, you still need to practise; you might get better, and one day you strike lucky and you hit a tipping point. As the wisdom of snooker players informs us: ‘The more I practise, the luckier I become’. Being struthonian is not an option.”
“ what would I do if there were a big blue sky and I knew I couldn’t fail? It sets me up for bigger and better things.
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“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” —Albert Einstein
“ Such lists would be more responsibly named “prevailing practices”, and not “best practices” at all. Indeed, the fact that such practices are what everyone else is doing is precisely what makes them feel so safe. The phrase “best practices” is respectable, but its function is to allow organizations to hide amidst the herd. It’s a fancy way of seeking safety in numbers.
Nonprofit Online News: Playing it Safe is a Trap: Five Syndromes in Online Marketing
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. -M.Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005)
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
-Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)