“E. B. White was amused to learn from a farmer friend that many electrified fences don’t have any current running through them. The cows apparently learn to stay away from them, and after that you don’t need the current. “Rise up, cows!” he wrote, “Take your liberty while despots snore!”
If you’re a hacker who has thought of one day starting a startup, there are probably two things keeping you from doing it. One is that you don’t know anything about business. The other is that you’re afraid of competition. Neither of these fences have any current in them.
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“The products that take design seriously and incorporate it from the start are going to be the ones that connect with people in a way that really makes an impact in the world”
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“The kinds of stuff we do in ‘making’ are paths to the future, not paths to sidelines.”
— Pentagon taps students to build robots, drones | California Watch
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“My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.”
— James Thurber
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“So I often tell people that the mid-century will be about “old people in big cities who are afraid of the sky.” I think that’s a pretty useful, common-sense, plausible assessment. You may not hear it said much, but it’s how things are turning out.”
— The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2012
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“A small, beautiful, modest, handcrafted society, living in harmony with its Eco-region, relentlessly parsimonious in its use of energy and resources , can’t learn enough about itself to survive.”
— Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things
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“I wonder what’s down there, I’ll go and have a smell.”
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“Every meeting must have one clear decision maker. If there’s no decision maker — or no decision to be made — the meeting shouldn’t happen.
No more than 10 people should attend.
Every person should give input, otherwise they shouldn’t be there.
No decision should ever wait for a meeting. If a meeting absolutely has to happen before a decision should be made, then the meeting should be scheduled immediately.”— How Larry Page Changed Meetings At Google After Taking Over Last Spring
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“Which of them would risk the chamber pot of failed hopes being emptied over their heads by calling for a national industrial strategy?”
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“The everyday object is the monarch of all objects.”
