"Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty."

-- Eric Ries

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“Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and moderation. There are thus many forms of lust, like the many forms of sin ... Lust does not approach the soul in the form of a warlike enemy, but in the form of a friend or a pleasant servant. It suggests some sort of pleasure or illusory good. But this is only a trick by which the malicious angler strives to lead astray and catch the poor soul. Remember this when you are tempted by lust.”
“My pledge to myself is I will believe in my music, always. I stand behind everything I do. If I don't think it's amazing, how the hell is anyone else going to think it's amazing? But that's just me.”
“Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”
“There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.”
“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naÃ¯vetÃ©, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”

Source : Steve Martin (2007). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“To my precious members, who I hope to be with forever, I love you and thank you so much.”
“Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.”
“The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.”

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