Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Schopenhauer
A human being can very well do what he wants, but cannot will what he wants.
Bob Hawke
The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.
Steve Uzzell
Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
Alan Watts, Does It Matter
Money is a measure of wealth, and we invent money as we invent the Fahrenheit scale of temperature or the avoirdupois measure of weight… By contrast with money, true wealth is the sum of energy, technical intelligence, and raw materials.
Information Week
Goodbye IT, Hello Digital Business.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our thoughts become our words, our words become our actions, our actions become our character, our character becomes our destiny.
Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Voltaire
Judge a man by his questions, not his answers.
Work saves a man from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Pablo Picasso
On computers: But they are useless. They can only give you answers.
Milton Freedman
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
William Glasser
We Learn ...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
70% of what we discuss
80% of what we experience
950 of what we teach others
Albert Einstein
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy,
Only two things are infinite: universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former.
Clive Thompson, Smarter Than You Think
Our ancestors learned how to remember; we'll learn how to forget.
Gabriel Weinberg
Blogging forces you to write down your arguements and assumptions. This is the single biggest reason to do it, and I think it alone makes it worth it.
Sir Francis Bacon
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
Sturgeon's Law
90 percent of everything (science fiction or user generated content) is in a word, crap. The 10 percent isn't crap and a smaller percentage is downright good.
Jeff Howe, Crowdsourcing
The only thing we all have in common is that we are all quite different - in the networked age, that can be a very good thing.
If great minds think alike (and in many circumstances they do) - then they really constitute only one mind. Two heads aren't better than one when it's really only one head (i.e., having similar thinking heads doesn't help).
Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Malcom Gladwell, Outliers
Three qualities work has to have if it is to be satisfying:
- Autonomy
- Complexity
- Connection between effort and reward
Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Although Fortune is fair in potentialities, she is not fair in outcomes.
Aaron Levenstein
Statistical Models are like bikinis - what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Peter Drucker
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker, but of the manager.
Frank Wander, Transforming IT Culture
The quality of solution is a direct reflection of the cohesiveness of the social system (read as team) that delivered it
Marc Goodman, TED Talk
You control the code, you control the world
Todd Humphreys, TED Talk
We are selling our privacy for convenience
Stanley McChrystal, TED Talk
Leaders aren't good because they are right, they are good because they are willing to learn and willing to trust.
David A Garvin, Harvard Business Review
Engineers hate being micromanaged on the technical side but love being closely managed on the career side.
People don't quit companies but they quit managers.
Adage
If everything is important, nothing is.
Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage
Too many objectives - none of them is going to get the attention it deserves and there will be distraction, diffusion, and dilution.
An organization has to institutionalize its culture without bureaucratizing it.
You can teach skill but not attitude.
C.A.R. Hoare
Inside every large program, there is a small program to get out!
T.S. Eliott
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
I would like to add,
Where is the information we have lost in data?
Clay Shirky in Cognitive Surplus
Generations do differ, but less because people differ than because opportunities do.
Humanly are fundamentally individual, but we are also fundamentally social.
All groups have an emotional component - emotion, in fact keeps groups together.
Because humans have fundamentally social as well as personal motivations, social motivations can drive far more participation than can personal motivations alone.
People will behave if they sense that there is a long-term value in doing so, and short-term loss is not doing so.
Ironically, one of the easiest ways to distract a group is to get them to focus on outside enemies, real or imagined, rather than on their shared interests or tasks (or principles).
Carl Shapiro, Harl R. Varian, Information Rules
Information is costly to produce but cheap to reproduce.
Sitaram Asur and Bernado Huberman, HP
... social media expresses a collective wisdom which, when properly tapped, can yield extremely powerful and accurate indicator of future outcomes.
Julian Simon, Economist
The main fuel to speed world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age
Analog dollars are becoming digital pennies.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.
Sometimes, one man'a creativity is anothe machine's brute-force analysis.
Tony Robbins, TED Talk
Divorce the story, marry the truth.
Trey Speegle, Mixed Media Artist, Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas. Advice & Projects from 50 Successful Artists by Danielle Krysa
You have to set up the narrow parameters that you work in, and then within those, give yourself just enough room to be free and play.
Donald Rumsfeld
There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say there are that, we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns - there are things that we do not know we don't know.
Gary Keller
How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our life. (In his book, The One Thing)
Alan Kay
The best way to predict future is to invent it.
