"Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions."

-- Frans Johansson

#Innovation Quotes #Execution Quotes #Strings Quotes

“Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion ...”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.109, Open Road Media
“A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.”
“But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.”
“I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.”
“You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.”
“The ultimate use of power is to empower others.”
“Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.”

Source : "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.
“This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. Itâ€™s not that the network itself is smart; itâ€™s that the individuals get smarter because theyâ€™re connected to the network.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.42, Penguin

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