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On Time
Jun 9, 2020
quotes
”They say time heals all wounds, but we never live long enough to test that theory.” Jose Saramago
On Models
Jun 9, 2020
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”“All models are wrong, but some are useful”. ” George Box
On Empowerment
May 31, 2020
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”While Team Human may be compromised in the digital environment, team algorithm is empowered.” Douglas Rushkoff Read More : On the Internet of
On Time
May 30, 2020
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”All we have is the time we have left.” Dave Winer
On Truth.
May 24, 2020
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& quotes
”The only truth is music.” Jack Kerouac
On Destination
May 24, 2020
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& quotes
”One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” Henry Miller … Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
On Language
May 24, 2020
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“Language makes thought, as much as it is made by thought. Thought inhabits language and language is its body.” Maurice Merleau-Ponty … From
On Knowing
May 24, 2020
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“I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your
On Life
May 24, 2020
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& quotes
”The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." Frank Herbert - Dune
Not Yet Attributed
Apr 6, 2020
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& quotes
Sometimes I find or hear great quotes - but can’t attribute them, so I am collecting them here. “We are not waiting for anything at all anymore …
On Transition
Apr 4, 2020
people.first
& quotes
“Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strategy and Tactics
Apr 4, 2020
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”Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu
Logical Arguments
Apr 1, 2020
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”All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically” Steven Weinberg
On Reading
Jan 12, 2020
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& quotes
“Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that
On Insults
Apr 24, 2019
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”No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer
On The English
Apr 24, 2019
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”The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.” Margaret Halsey
On Empire
Apr 24, 2019
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”In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in
On The British
Apr 24, 2019
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”They (the British) are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent.” Voltaire
On Poems
Apr 24, 2019
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“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.” John Fowles
On Truth
Apr 17, 2019
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“Far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.” Richard Feynman
On Reading
Apr 17, 2019
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami
On Certainty
Apr 17, 2019
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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” Voltaire
On Betting
Apr 17, 2019
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“If you bet on a horse, that’s gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that’s entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points,
On Trust
Apr 17, 2019
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“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be a man nobody trusts.” Harold Macmillan
On Idleness
Apr 17, 2019
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”The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” Bertrand Russell
Truth
Apr 17, 2019
quotes
“Be careful of what you do ‘cause the lie becomes the truth.” Michael Jackson
On Zero
Apr 17, 2019
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“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.” Robert D. Kaplan
On Fear
Apr 17, 2019
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”Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Margaret Atwood
On Failure
Apr 17, 2019
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Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
On People
Apr 17, 2019
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”We should try and make people more interesting than phones.” Charlie Brooker
On Confusion
Apr 17, 2019
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”If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” Harry S. Truman TRUMan TRUMp As someone else once said … “History doesn’t repeat - but it does
On Morality
Apr 17, 2019
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”… your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed …
On Predictions
Apr 17, 2019
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“I never make predictions, especially about the future.” Sam Goldwyn … or Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra or Niels Bohr or Robert
On Teaching
Apr 17, 2019
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to
On Teaching
Apr 17, 2019
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If you give a hungry man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Lao Tsu
On Minds
Apr 17, 2019
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”Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary” Blaise Pascal
On Time
Apr 6, 2019
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“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger;
On Thinking
Apr 6, 2019
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”Most people would rather die than think; many do.” Bertrand Russell
On Pursuit
Apr 6, 2019
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”An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” Pliny the Younger
On Paradise
Apr 6, 2019
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges
On Love
Apr 6, 2019
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“When two people fall in love and suspect they are made for each other, the thing is to have the courage to break it off, for by continuing they
On Government
Apr 6, 2019
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”Every nation gets the government it deserves” Joseph de Maistre
On Work
Apr 6, 2019
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“What science has done is to increase the proportion of your life in which you are a cog. You can only justify the cog theory by worship of the
On Trump
Apr 6, 2019
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“Mr. Trump’s candidacy is a message from the voters. He is the empty gin bottle they have chosen to toss through the window.” David Gerlernter
On Sleep
Apr 6, 2019
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”I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” Ernest Hemingway
On Happiness
Apr 6, 2019
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“The key to happiness is to have low expectations.” Howard Rheingold
On Minds
Apr 5, 2019
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“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in
On Traveling
Apr 5, 2019
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“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Baṭūṭah
On Praying
Apr 5, 2019
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”When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep" The Pope
On Writing
Apr 5, 2019
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“I would go on writing even if I knew I was not going to be published, ever. I couldn’t help it.” John LeCarre
On The American Dream
Apr 5, 2019
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”It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” George Carlin
On Flaws
Apr 5, 2019
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“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.” Sarah Dessen
On Creativity
Apr 5, 2019
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“Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse
On Writing
Apr 3, 2019
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”The reason I eventually became a writer is that writing makes thinking easier, and even as a verbally under developed fourteen-year-old I knew that
On History
Apr 3, 2019
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“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.” Robert Heinlein
On Truth
Apr 3, 2019
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”“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.””
On Truth
Apr 3, 2019
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“I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
On Religion
Apr 3, 2019
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”There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” George Bernard Shaw
On Wars
Apr 3, 2019
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”All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory." Viet Thanh Nguyen
On Management
Apr 3, 2019
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”One sticks a finger into the ground to smell what country one is in. I stick my finger into the world — it has no smell. Where am I? What does it
On Desire
Apr 3, 2019
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”The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too,
On Beer
Apr 3, 2019
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“Good people drink good beer.” Hunter S. Thompson
On Artifical Intelligence
Apr 2, 2019
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”Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” Tom Chatfield
On Specialization
Apr 1, 2019
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”A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
On Immigration
Apr 1, 2019
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”We all came in on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.” Martin Luther King Jr
On Hunger
Apr 1, 2019
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”The belly is a rascal, it doesn’t remember how well you treated it yesterday, it’ll cry out for more tomorrow.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
On Forgiveness
Apr 1, 2019
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”We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Robin Sharma (maybe)
On Decisions
Apr 1, 2019
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”Generally speaking, in making a decision we have before us a large number of alternatives, none of which is demonstrably more “rational” than the
On What Counts
Apr 1, 2019
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”What you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count.” R. Buckminster Fuller
On Grammar
Apr 1, 2019
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”Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.” Richard Chenevix Trench
On Truth
Mar 28, 2019
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”All truth is comprised in music and mathematics.” Margaret Fuller
On Service
Mar 26, 2019
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”People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.” Theodore Levitt
On Magic
Mar 26, 2019
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C Clarke
On Price
Mar 26, 2019
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”Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” Warren Buffet
On Calm
Mar 26, 2019
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”I’m not going to calm down because that’s not my nature“ Karl Lagerfeld
On Matter
Mar 26, 2019
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”Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” Johann Wolfgang von Goeth
On Politics
Mar 26, 2019
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”I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” Adlai E.
On The Good Life
Mar 23, 2019
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”The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Bertrand Russell
On Judgement
Mar 23, 2019
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire
On Astrology
Mar 23, 2019
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”I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” Arthur C Clarke
On Perception
Mar 23, 2019
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”There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” Aldous Huxley
On Humanity
Mar 23, 2019
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”All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal
On Digital
Mar 21, 2019
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”But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations,
On Answers
Mar 20, 2019
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”If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” Thomas Pynchon
On Dying
Mar 20, 2019
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”Dying is active. Dying is not what happens to you. Dying is what you do.” Stephen Jenkinson
On Writing
Mar 20, 2019
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”If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.” Benjamin Franklin
On Strength
Mar 20, 2019
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”That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche
On Politics
Mar 20, 2019
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”To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”” Hubert H. Humphrey
On Attitude
Mar 20, 2019
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”A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” Tom Stoppard
On History
Mar 20, 2019
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”You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Steve Jobs
On Google
Mar 12, 2019
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“Google does not understand customers whose IQs are sub-200.” Robert Cringely
On Protocols
Feb 27, 2019
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”The protocols that matter are not the ones that help us express commercial intent but rather the ones that preserve our right to personality.”
On Lies
Feb 25, 2019
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”A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain
On Response
Feb 25, 2019
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”Networked threats require a networked response.” Anne-Marie Slaughter
On Life
Feb 18, 2019
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“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
On Education
Feb 18, 2019
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and
On Courage
Feb 18, 2019
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”Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
On Knowledge
Feb 18, 2019
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“Knowledge consists in the search for truth… It is not the search for certainty.” Karl Popper
On Death
Feb 18, 2019
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”There is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address.” Edgar Froese
On Republicans
Feb 18, 2019
politics
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”In reality, the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism" Avik Roy
On Opportunity
Feb 18, 2019
quotes
”Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him” Bangambiki Habyarimana
On Man
Feb 14, 2019
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“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.” Werner Herzog
On Creation
Feb 14, 2019
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”In order to make apple pie from scratch you must first create the universe.” Carl Sagan
On Opportunity
Jan 14, 2019
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”Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him” Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In are starting to look like Ivanka Trump and Women Who Work, just privileged posers and empty rhetoric.
Dec 15, 2018
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On Writing
Dec 14, 2018
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“One can never be alone enough to write. To see better.” Susan Sontag
On Dan Rather
Dec 14, 2018
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I like Dan Rather. He’s a fine newsman, an interesting person to talk to, and quite a bit nuttier than most of those media types (I consider that a
On Life
Nov 19, 2018
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”We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we have only one.” Confucius
On Men
Nov 19, 2018
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”I love men — they make such good pets.” Blanche Blackwell
On Minorities
Nov 19, 2018
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”The protection of minorities is vitally important; and even the most orthodox of us may find himself in a minority some day, so that we all have an
On Performance
Nov 19, 2018
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”Nothing proves performance more than 400 flying monkeys.” Phil Schiller
On Appearance
Nov 19, 2018
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”We’re Apple. We Don’t Wear Suits. We Don’t Even Own Suits.” Steve Jobs
On Reputation Systems
Nov 19, 2018
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“Universal reputation systems are evil personified.” Philip Sheldrake To be fair - it is what he said, but what he wrote, is a little more
On Minds
Nov 19, 2018
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”Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt
On Intelligence
Nov 19, 2018
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”Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Steven Hawking Steven Hawking ~emquote
On Anger
Nov 19, 2018
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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” Benjamin Franklin
On Poetry
Nov 19, 2018
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”The heart turns to poetry what the mind can’t understand.” Juansen Dizon
On Success
Nov 19, 2018
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”Success is always rationalized. People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and
On Experience
Nov 19, 2018
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“I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” R Buckminster Fuller
On Cricket
Nov 19, 2018
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”Cricket is a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of Eternity.” Lord
On Ambition
Nov 19, 2018
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“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” Timothy Leary
On Privacy
Nov 19, 2018
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”In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of privacy.” David Martin Who is David Martin
On Vegeterianism
Nov 19, 2018
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”I am a vegetarian for health reasons — the health of the chicken.” Isaac Bashevis Singer
On Wisdom
Nov 19, 2018
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”We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.” E. O. Wilson
On What Matters
Nov 19, 2018
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”Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” Johann Wolfgang von Goeth
On Knowledge
Nov 19, 2018
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”I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde
On Time
Nov 19, 2018
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”Don’t let yesterday take up much of today.” Kim Stanley Robinson
On Capitalism
Nov 19, 2018
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”Late capitalism is a pyramid racket on a global scale…getting the suckers to believe it’s all gonna go on forever" Thomas Pynchon
On Knowledge
Nov 19, 2018
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Steven Hawking
On Pictures
Nov 19, 2018
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”Remembering simplified pictures is better than forgetting exact numbers.” Otto Neurath
On Life
Nov 19, 2018
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”“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.”” Bertrand Russell
On Eternity
Nov 19, 2018
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”Well I’m not a scientist. But I know all things begin and end in eternity.” Thomas Jerome Newton, The Man Who Fell To Earth
On Direction
Nov 19, 2018
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“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll
On Life
Nov 19, 2018
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”Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” David Shrigley
On Confidence
Nov 19, 2018
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”Confidence is silent and insecurity is loud” Senator John Kennedy ”
🎵 Who Was Major Tom
Nov 19, 2018
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& quotes
“When I originally wrote about Major Tom,” Bowie said, “I thought I knew all about the great American dream and where it started and where it should
On Improvisation
Nov 19, 2018
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”There are no mistakes, just chances to improvise.” Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock
On Change
Nov 19, 2018
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“You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” R.
On Direction
Nov 19, 2018
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”If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.” Irwin Corey (accepting the the National Book Award in 1974 for Gravity’s
On Pictures
Nov 19, 2018
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”Whatever can be shown by a picture must not be told in words.” Otto Neurath
This Is Not America
Nov 19, 2018
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& quotes
A little piece of you The little peace in me Will die For this is not America. David Bowie This quote was used on my 18th article for
On Teaching
Nov 19, 2018
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”Whoever leaves the most out is the best teacher.” Otto Neurath
On Ethics
Nov 19, 2018
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”Any field that obsesses over ‘ethics’ as a topic independent of the work is probably doing something very unethical in that work.” Annoymous via
On On ‘The Essential’
Nov 19, 2018
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”“One sees rightly only with the heart, the essential is invisible to the eyes.”” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Needs
Nov 19, 2018
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”Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” Mahatma Gandhi
On Language
Nov 19, 2018
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”We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.” Oscar Wilde
On Madness
Nov 19, 2018
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“You’re only given a little spark of madness and if you lose that, you’re nothing.” Robin Williams
On Philosophy
Nov 19, 2018
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“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one
On Silicon Valley
Nov 19, 2018
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”Silicon Valley strives to compress all of digital experience into a single, monotonous feed, mainlining capital into the pockets of
On England
Nov 19, 2018
quotes
Nothing ever stands still. We must add to our heritage or lose it, we must grow greater or grow less, we must go forward or backward. I believe in
On Tourism
Nov 19, 2018
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“Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.” Evelyn Waugh
On Integrity
Nov 19, 2018
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“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” Buckminster Fuller
On Genius v Talent
Nov 19, 2018
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”Genius gives birth, talent delivers” Jack Kerouac
On England
Nov 19, 2018
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”Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.” Charles Churchill
On Being
Nov 19, 2018
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“Be — drop becoming.” Julian Summerhayes
On Democracy
Nov 19, 2018
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”We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both.” Louis Brandeis
On Education
Nov 19, 2018
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”Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
On Musicians
Nov 19, 2018
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“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.” Thelonious Monk
On Business
Nov 19, 2018
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”Business is not just business. Business is relationships. Real humans! Real feelings!” Tina Roth Eisenberg (SwissMiss)
On Morals
Nov 19, 2018
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”It is a moral imperative to obey just laws, but it’s also a moral imperative to disobey unjust laws.” Martin Luther King Jr
On Misbehaving
Nov 19, 2018
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”I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.” Orson Welles
On Time
Nov 19, 2018
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”Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell
On Fools and Fanatics
Nov 19, 2018
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”The Problem with the World Is That Fools & Fanatics Are So Certain of Themselves.” Bertrand Russell
On The Presidency
Nov 19, 2018
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“In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.” Adlai E. Stevenson II
On Yourself
Nov 19, 2018
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”Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” Sylvia Plath
On Anger
Nov 19, 2018
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”When anger rises, think of the consequences.” Confucius
On Words
Nov 19, 2018
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”Words divide, pictures unite!” Otto Neurath
On Organization
Nov 19, 2018
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“The organization as a rigidly reductionist mechanical beast is an endangered species. The traditional heroic leader may not be far behind.”
On Silence
Nov 19, 2018
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“Listen to the silence it has much to say.” Rumi
On Writing
Nov 19, 2018
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Turn up for work. Never stop when you are stuck. Love what you do. Be honest with yourself. Don’t hold onto poor work. Take no notice of anyone you
On Climate
Nov 19, 2018
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”If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” David Attenborough
On Getting It Right
Nov 19, 2018
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”If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” John Wooden
On Twitter
Nov 19, 2018
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“Twitter - a stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous who love to second-guess, to leap to conclusions and be offended.” Stephen Fry
On Change
Nov 19, 2018
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“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” C.S. Lewis
On Words
Nov 19, 2018
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”Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness” Samuel Becket
On Heroes
Nov 19, 2018
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”Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” Bertolt Brecht
On Conversation
Nov 19, 2018
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“I still believe in the power of something seemingly so small as two people talking in a room.” Steven Soderbergh
On Seeing
Nov 19, 2018
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”It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau
On Life
Nov 19, 2018
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”If I had to live my life again, I’d do everything the same, except that I wouldn’t see The Magus.” Woody Allen
On Thinking
Nov 19, 2018
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”Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.” Bertrand Russell
On Cooperation
Nov 19, 2018
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”We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale
On Genius
Nov 19, 2018
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”Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Bitcoin
Nov 19, 2018
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”So is Bitcoin a giant bubble that will end in grief? Yes. But it’s a bubble wrapped in techno-mysticism inside a cocoon of libertarian
On Congress
Nov 15, 2018
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”Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.” Boris Marshalov Marshalov is
On Curiosity
Nov 14, 2018
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”Be absurdly curious.” Werner Herzog
On Spirituality
Nov 14, 2018
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”The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.” Carl Sagan
On Change
Nov 14, 2018
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”Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
On The British
Nov 14, 2018
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”I didn’t know he was dead; I thought he was British.” Anonymous
On Evil
Nov 14, 2018
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”The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” Hannah Arendt
On Reading … And Writing
Nov 14, 2018
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“We read often with as much talent as we write.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Power
Nov 14, 2018
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”The most important thing about power is to make sure you don’t have to use it.” Edwin Land
On Writing
Nov 14, 2018
quotes
”Sometimes, when you’re writing, it feels like you’re fingers are chasing your brain, trying to get all the thoughts out on the page before they run
On Trouble
Nov 14, 2018
quotes
“So are we heading for trouble? Too soon to tell. But if we are, rest assured that we’ll have the worst possible people on the case.” Paul Krugman
On Chairs
Nov 14, 2018
quotes
“Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois” Le Corbusier
On Beauty?
Nov 14, 2018
quotes
… or Power? “A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience.” Naomi Wolf
On Monsters
Nov 14, 2018
quotes
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to
On Questions
Nov 14, 2018
quotes
”I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than questions that can’t be questioned.” Richard Feynman
On Music
Nov 12, 2018
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& quotes
”Without music life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche
It Didn’t Have To Be That Way
Oct 8, 2018
quotes
& observations
”Unlike ‘blockchain’ or ‘digital twins’, ethics and privacy are not at all new concepts. They’ve been discussion topics for philosophers and
On Maintenance
Oct 8, 2018
quotes
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
On Narcissism
Nov 16, 2017
quotes
“Narcissism: when one grows too old to believe in one’s uniqueness, one falls in love with one’s complexity.” John Fowles
On Control
Nov 14, 2016
quotes
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell
On Powerful Ideas
May 15, 2016
quotes
”Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo
On Power and Capital
Dec 31, 2015
quotes
“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
On Oppression
Dec 31, 2015
quotes
”People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." Aldous Huxley
On Next Year
Dec 31, 2015
quotes
”more deep less shallow; more writing less busy; more walking less flying; more music less noise; more garden less food; more laughs less sighs;
On Platforms
Dec 31, 2015
quotes
“A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.” Bill
On Revolution
Dec 31, 2015
quotes
“It’s not a revolution if nobody loses.” Clay Shirky via Stoweboyd via Stowe Boyd
On Predictions
Nov 14, 2014
quotes
”You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Steve Jobs
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