"The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself."

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Source : Harvard Business Review, www.wired.com. 1991.

John Seely Brown

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“My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.”
“Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.”

Source : Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981
“The business of beauty isn't a natural model; It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple. These magazines got you caught in a hustle, Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.”
“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”
“If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.”
“Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.”
“Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.”

Source : "Not just a chick thing". Interview with Simon Braund, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.
“If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.”

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