"Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation solved a key problem of the "normal" use case that we all already understood."

-- Dave Morin

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“I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape after having a baby if I ran the New York City Marathon. I ran in it November 1986. I had just shot the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, so I was in great shape.”
“Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects.”
“Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.”
“Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.”
“Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.”

Source : Eliot Weinberger (2000). “Anonymous Sources: A Talk on Translators and Translation : Lecture”
“In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life”
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”

Source : Zedong Mao (2007). “On Practice and Contradiction”, Verso Books
“I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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