quotes

It's an old quote from Steve Jobs (1996, imho) but in the light of current events, it still seems very relevant:

"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."

:-)

"Innovation is "a meta-stable entity". Nothing will kill it faster than trying to manage it, predict it, and put it on a timeline."

Vishva Dixit, vice president for research of Genentech

"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." "To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art."

-- US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

"A boss isn't paid more than a subordinate because he or she is better. A boss is paid more than a subordinate because the boss has greater responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to stand up for people when it's necessary and to shield them from things they shouldn't have to deal with."

Fiorina, Carley, Tough Choices: A Memoir, New York: Portfolio, 2006, p 54.

“If you leave us our money, our buildings and our brands, but take away our people, the Company will fail. But if you take away our money, our buildings, and our brands, but leave us our people, we can rebuild the whole thing in a decade.”

 

 -- Richard R. Deupree, Former CEO of Procter & Gamble, 1947