"Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads."

-- Lord Chesterfield

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“The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.”
“Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.”

Source : Richard Dooling (2008). “Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ”, p.6, Crown
“The funniest people are the saddest once”
“I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.”
“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
“If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.”
“I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!”

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