"In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work."

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Source : Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak (2013). “Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know”, p.90, Harvard Business Press

Thomas H. Davenport

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“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
“I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.”
“When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.”
“For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.”
“The whole world is a large Niepokalanow where the Father is God, the mother the Immaculata, the elder brother the Lord Jesus in all the tabernacles of the world, and the younger brothers the people.”
“I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages to English, there is often a choice between a Latinate cognate and a Germanic equivalent. An easy example would be the Portuguese escuridÃ£o: English offers both obscurity and dark or darkness, and some translators will tell you the Latinate word is generally reserved for poetic and figurative expressions, while the Germanic word is used for colloquial and idiomatic use.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.”
“I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that.”

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