"Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible."

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Source : Ben Casnocha (2015). “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

Ben Casnocha

#Randomness Quotes

“You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.”

Source : Source: www.aintitcool.com
“And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically oriented, positivistic, leftist creative works. And I found it incredibly useful. And I found it something that I've learned from and gained from.”
“Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.11
“Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.”

Source : "William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging powers'". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley and Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

Source : Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”
“I'm tired of this. It's like, just when I think our goal is within reach, it slips right through our fingers. It's happened time and again. Now, when we finally in our grasp, the truth slaps us in the face.”
“It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.”

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