
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

happiness is something that happens to us while we are pursuing some other purpose
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
‘In nine months a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.’
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.’
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
‘Always make the audience suffer as much as possible’. Hitchcock was an information sadist.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
‘social loafing’ — the widespread tendency of individuals to decrease their own effort when they start working collaboratively.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Young’s technique consists of five steps. The first is to ‘Gather raw material’.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
‘The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.’