Quotes

An unfortunate fact of corporate life is that a subset of your colleagues who claim to have “strong opinions, weakly held” in reality demonstrate “strong opinions, aggressively defended, rarely reconsidered, but happily changed if that’s what the bosses want”.

"Doing things that shouldn't be done in the first place faster and cheaper does not in my view constitute progress."

Kevin Gray

“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its wings.”

Charlie Wardle

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”

William Orton, President of Western Union (1876)

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking

Best-selling author Jack Canfield once said, “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” And he’s right. But I’m going to take it one step further. Pain, discomfort, shock, boredom, impostor syndrome, awkwardness, fear, being wrong, failing, ignorance, looking stupid: Your avoidance of these feelings is stopping you from a life greater than

To a certain extent we are wasting our time. We have a perfect model of the world—it is the world! But it is too complicated.

Rohan Alexander, Telling Stories With Data

"If it's not a Hell Yes, then it's a NO."
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