"Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation"

-- Steve Case

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“All good art is abstract.”
“What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.”

Source : FaceBook post by Eric Ries from Dec 08, 2016
“The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.”
“It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]”
“Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.”

Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.261, Princeton University Press
“Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.”

Source : Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”
“it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.”
“Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.”

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