Friday, 2 July 2010

Frantic is good

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

Mario Andretti

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Culture > Technology

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

Clay Shirky

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Effectiveness vs Efficiency

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Perhaps a bridge would be better?

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

Monday, 15 March 2010

Change etc.

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

Monday, 8 February 2010

Only 20:20 vision is hindsight

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

Søren Kierkegaard

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

There's no such thing as a side effect

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

Isaac Asimov

Thursday, 14 January 2010

Behavioural Economics

“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”

Time out to think

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

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Spread the love

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust
French novelist (1871 - 1922)

Smell the roses

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)