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"Modern invention has been a great leveller. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance."
- Ivor Brown, The Heart of England
> "When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of schoolchildren." > - Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, 1985 This is of course an invented quote, but it tells you where the head of the person quoting it is at.
The whole CCSS (Common Core State Standards) is an example of groups with power/influence in the system pushing changes that benefit the true customers of the 'educational system' (which are not the kids, but Pearson et al.). New educational standards mean new textbooks, new revenue streams, new consulting engagements, teacher trainings, golf outings to wine/dine superintendents - it goes on and on. See also, the dem…
Not to me. It's a term for using a bathroom in such a way as to make it unusable to others (thanks, Gilfoyle!).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole CCSS (Common Core State Standards) is an example of groups with power/influence in the system pushing changes that benefit the true customers of the 'educational system' (which are not the kids, but Pearson et al.). New educational standards mean new textbooks, new revenue streams, new consulting engagements, teacher trainings, golf outings to wine/dine superintendents - it goes on and on. See also, the dem…
What are we doing here? Seeing how many tangents we can go down in the least number of comments?
I've noticed a lot of quote sets are just bunches of interesting ideas. Some are very finely selected to avoid overlap, forming a sort of axiom basis for the curator, but many are just a honkin' pile of neat quips. So how would you measure along that scale? To date, the cuil is largely a witty remark on bizarrely off-topic search results, but it'd be entertaining to think about measuring curation quality.
> "When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of schoolchildren." > - Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, 1985 This is of course an invented quote, but it tells you where the head of the person quoting it is at.
Regarding the "Audience" quote, how do you explain movies like The Shawshank Redemption or The Big Lebowski, which were initially panned by audiences but then later went on to big success and acclaim?
"The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money." - Henry Ford
In other words, the best way to get more customers may be to delight them by providing a lot more value than they expect.
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
Pretty much sums up the best way to think about innovation and disruption.
"But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never." - William Friedkin
Will the market validate your idea/product? That is what matters the most in the end - so it is vital to understand clearly what the market wants.
"Focusing is about saying no." - Steve Jobs
"As it turned out, the obvious clearly stated, and combined with new observations, was sometimes close to revolutionary." - Wallace Stegner
The next big thing always appears obvious and simple in retrospect!
a Mexican proverb, recently used to refer to the 43 disappeared in Mexico.
"He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg."
- Chinese Proverb
"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." I feel many investors or even people in general misinterpret being relaxed and non-intense (vs. being serious) as someone who's not passionate or uninterested or not a go-getter. It's been reoccurring to get advice of the nature that you have to wow people with a high-intensity pitch in order to win investors over, though that feels completely wrong to m…
Unfortunately this is not a problem limited to VCs. It is everywhere apparent. Confidence, imo, is one of the top five worst words of this decade. "Girls like confident men," "Boss wants a confident problem solver," "the coach wants a confident lead player." To my kids, I will teach Courage, instead.