“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Film-maker
“Never waste a journey.”
John Jarvis, British Window-artisan
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
Oscar Wilde, 19th Century Troublemaker
“Conscious awareness is a post hoc report of what is going on in your head.”
Matthew Ridley, Libertarian Hereditary Peer
“Insight doesn’t happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.”
Eudora Welty, Deep South Writer
“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Film-maker
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
Oscar Wilde, 19th Century Troublemaker
“It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness.”
Daniel Kahneman, American Psychologist
“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
E O Wilson, Harvard biologist
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Schemer
“Trial and error will always be a part of how any organization solves a complex, ever-shifting problem.”
Tim Harford, British Economist
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Kevin Kelly, American Tech Pioneeer
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin, American Novelist
“Unfortunately, our ability to learn from information hasn’t necessarily kept pace with its proliferation.”
Charles Duhigg, American Journalist
“We tend to give too much credit to whichever clever person is standing nearby at the right moment.”
Matt Ridley, House of Lords Wall Street Journalist
“Intelligence selectively destroys information to create knowledge.”
Ray Kurzweil, Singularity Espousing Google Executive
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
Albert Einstein, Nobel-prizewinning Expert on Extremely Big Things
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
Richard Feynman, Physics Showoff
“Our cognitive, emotional, and moral faculties are adapted to individual survival and reproduction in an archaic environment, not to universal thriving in a modern one.”
Steven Pinker, Progressive Liberal
“Productivity is for robots. Humans excel at wasting time, experimenting, playing, creating, and exploring.”
Kevin Kelly, Technology Publisher
“To make anything interesting you simply have to look at it long enough.”
Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist
“And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.”
Jonathan Haidt, American Psychologist
“Nothing is 100% ‘unique.’ Language purists be damned: uniqueness is a matter of degree.”
Philip E Tetlock, Pennsylvanian Professor of Forecasting
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Plato, Greek ponderer
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris, English Crafts-nut
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
Albert Einstein, Nobel-prizewinning Expert on Extremely Big Things
“No one is smart enough to invent anything in isolation that anyone else would want to use.”
Steven Pinker, Harvard Evolutionary Psychologist
“Trial and error is a tremendously powerful process for solving problems in a complex world, while expert leadership is not.”
Tim Harford, Financial Times Undercover Economist
“There’s an extreme kind of conformity to all the non-conformity. You realize that in all this rebellion, everyone’s doing the same thing.”
Jason Everman, Nirvana guitarist and US Special Forces operative
“Plans are nothing, planning is everything.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
“Old words in the service of a new idea aren’t the problem. What inhibits creativity is new words in the service of an old idea.”
Malcolm Gladwell, British Canadian Opiner
