"The final act of business judgment is intuitive."

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Source : Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.16, eNet Press

Alfred P. Sloan

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“Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.”

Source : "Ketchup off menu for Di Canio's Sunderland". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2013.
“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
“Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem.”
“People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress in that in general. It turned out the problem we had to solve is sort of the reverse of the problem people usually have to solve. People usually have to solve the problem of you're given you know thousands, millions of pages of text, go have the computer understand this.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it.”
“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”
“Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 28, 2013
“Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.”

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