"A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty."

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Source : "What is a startup?". www.startuplessonslearned.com. June 21, 2010.

Eric Ries

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“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”
“I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.”
“Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts.”

Source : "Judith Crist, a Blunt and Influential Film Critic, Dies at 90". Interview With Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. August 7, 2012.
“Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.”
“I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.”
“A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic”
“... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.”
“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.”

Source : Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.825, Wordsworth Editions

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