October 2012
2 posts
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
– George Jean Nathan
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an...
– G.K. Chesterton
August 2012
1 post
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Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs....
– Samuel Johnson
June 2012
1 post
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Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to...
– Hans Snook
February 2012
1 post
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Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.
– Mike Tyson
January 2012
2 posts
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Real winners do not compete.
– Samuli Puronen
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Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been...
– Pasi Sahlberg
November 2011
2 posts
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You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.
– Buckminster Fuller
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Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot...
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
October 2011
3 posts
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Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas,...
– Paul Butler
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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
– Frank Zappa
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If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large
– Jeff Bezos
September 2011
1 post
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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be...
– Kevin Kelly
June 2011
2 posts
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why...
– René Daumal
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening...
– Abraham Lincoln
April 2011
5 posts
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A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he...
– Leon Festinger
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I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use...
– David Ogilvy
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Just because you were born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse.
– Kevin Rowland
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Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
– Joe Louis
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in...
– Gustave Flaubert
March 2011
4 posts
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I am glad I am not like you. I can go further and further into the wilderness,...
– Kazimir Malevich
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A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
– Samuel Butler
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[war is a] monstrous failure of imagination.
– Franz Kafka
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The extent to which you have a design style is the extent to which you have not...
– Charles Eames
January 2011
4 posts
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When people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them,...
– Neil Gaiman
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
– Albert Camus
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Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they...
– John Godfrey Saxe
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In order for learning to occur, somehow we must reach a psychological point...
– Edgar Schein
November 2010
1 post
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
– Stewart Brand
September 2010
5 posts
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I’m not a businessman; I’m a business, man!
– Shawn Carter
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
– Francois de Fenelon
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
– Samuel Beckett
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise...
– General George S. Patton
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It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all
– Samuel Johnson
April 2010
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The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss...
– Michaelangelo
March 2010
2 posts
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
– Steve Jobs
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I don’t know who discovered water, but I’m pretty sure it...
– Marshall McLuhan
February 2010
2 posts
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
– Stewart Brand
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
– Pablo Picasso
January 2010
4 posts
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There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
– Edward Teller
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If you don’t much care where you want to get to, it doesn’t matter...
– Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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There’s a difference between chastity and impotence: they both have the...
– Sydney Brenner
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Digital information lasts forever, or five years—whichever comes first
– Jeff Rothenberg
November 2009
1 post
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There are no masterpieces, for masterpieces appeal to a limited audience.
– Aldous Huxley
September 2009
2 posts
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
– Douglas Adams
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Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect
– Benny Hill
August 2009
7 posts
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I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the...
– George Burns
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If we don’t find anything good at least we will find something new
– Voltaire
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It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the...
– Harry S Truman
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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases....
– Louis Brandeis