"The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better."

-- Russell L. Ackoff

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“We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.”
“The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.”
“I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.”
“I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.”

Source : Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.
“Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.”
“History is, indeed, an argument without end.”
“I'm deathly afraid of rats.”
“I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 02, 2010

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