"I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people."

-- Gordon Bell

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“I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.”
“What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.”
“Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.”
“Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that .”
“The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.25, Penguin
“I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline”
“It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.”
“God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.”

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