Silicon versus Carbon

Things change because of people interacting with other people, rather than technology or design really doing things to people.”

Mark Earls

Frantic is good

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough

Mario Andretti

Culture > Technology

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Clay Shirky

Perhaps a bridge would be better?

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Benjamin Disraeli

Change etc.

"The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it."

Spider Robinson

Only 20:20 vision is hindsight

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

Time out to think

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

New idea are ridiculed

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Push Yourself

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

Embracing Failure #3

"I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work"

Thomas Edison

We Are Change

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”

Barack Obama

Change Ad Infinitum

“Nothing endures but change”

Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher (534-475 BCE)

Over-deliver

“Don’t give the people what they want, give them something better.”

Samuel Roxy Rothafel

The Way Things Are

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”

Bertolt Brecht, German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

No Fooling Nature

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

Richard Feynman, US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)

Invent the Future

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

Alan Kay

The Impossible

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

Walt Disney, US cartoonist & movie producer (1901 - 1966)

Perils of Being Customer Led #2

"If I'd have asked my customers what they'd wanted, they'd have asked for a faster horse"

Henry Ford

Perils of Being Customer Led

“These days, you can’t succeed as a company if you’re consumer led – because in a world so full of so much constant change, consumers can’t anticipate the next big thing. Companies should be idea-led and consumer-informed.”

Doug Atkin, partner, Merkley Newman Harty

Limiting Progress

"In other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvements of tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices and errors of today."

Isambard Kingdom Brunel