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"What’s the most critical factor in any business decision you’ll ever have to make?..."

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:52:00 +0200

“What’s the most critical factor in any business decision you’ll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards?”

- Business Stripped Bare - by Richard Branson | Derek Sivers

"You can be the greatest designer on the planet, have the most intriguing concepts out there, create..."

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:00:33 +0100

““You can be the greatest designer on the planet, have the most intriguing concepts out there, create wonderfully thought provoking experiences for your users, but if you type something like ‘I’ve been freelancing for a number off years’, you honestly look like a five year old.””

- Sam Brown ~ Learn To Fucking Spell

"There’s never really a great way to apologize, but there are plenty of terrible ways. If you’re at a..."

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:33:37 +0100

“There’s never really a great way to apologize, but there are plenty of terrible ways. If you’re at a coffee shop, and you spill coffee on someone by accident, what do you say? You’ll likely say “Oh my god, I’m so sorry!” When you mean it you say you’re sorry – it’s a primal response. You wouldn’t say “Oh my god, I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused!” But that’s exactly how most companies respond when they make a big mistake.”

- “What Matters Now” - Seth Godin’s new free eBook - (37signals)

"We’re not sure why the company bothered inventing Magsafe — surely if anyone in the US..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:07:09 +0100

“We’re not sure why the company bothered inventing Magsafe — surely if anyone in the US trips over a power cable, it flies out of the wall so fast no laptop could ever be pulled to the ground.”

- Plug versus Plug - Page 2 - Crave at CNET UK

"And when people aren’t allowed to be useful, they soon think that they’re useless"

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:33:04 +0200

“And when people aren’t allowed to be useful, they soon think that they’re useless”

- Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world | Video on TED.com

"What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an..."

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:32:33 +0200

““What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.” - Henry Miller”

- Personal Development for Smart People - by Steve Pavlina | Derek Sivers

"Now that you’re safely home, unbox your new beauty and bask in its technological superiority...."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:04:39 +0200

“Now that you’re safely home, unbox your new beauty and bask in its technological superiority. If you watch closely enough, you can witness your device depreciating.”

- Introduction Teardown

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising,"

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:37:11 +0200

““News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising,””

- Our Reaction To Your Reactions To the Twitter Confidential Documents Post

"I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you..."

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:12:37 +0200

“I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks…. you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to work with someone who makes them feel beat down all the time, or someone who they simply can’t understand, or someone whose reaction to every issue is to start wailing about the end of the world.”

- A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to..."

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:49:34 +0200

““The human brain starts working
the moment you are born and
never stops until you stand up to
speak in public.””

- Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes

"if you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent too much time on it"

Tue, 26 May 2009 16:48:56 +0200

“if you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent too much time on it”

- 10 lessons from a failed startup » VentureBeat

"it’s not failure that companies need to avoid, but rather “failing expensively."

Sat, 09 May 2009 13:33:35 +0200

“it’s not failure that companies need to avoid, but rather “failing expensively.””

- The only plan is to learn as you go - (37signals)

"When we played in Moscow at the Moscow Peace Festival back in ‘89 And we went on stage and..."

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:06:47 +0100

“When we played in Moscow at the Moscow Peace Festival back in ‘89 And we went on stage and were singing “Still Loving You” And a hundred-thousand Russians were singing along with a German band every word I think that was the moment for the inspiration for this song we’re gonna play for you now Even though the wind is blowing us right in the face many times I think, you know, there’s always hope Hope that we’ll stop killing each other, and someday we all live in peace together on this planet Here’s “Wind Of Change””

- Wind Of Change [Live] lyrics by Scorpions

"When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them."

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:53:43 +0100

““When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.””

- Presentation Zen: Jazz and the art of connecting

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I..."

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:37:50 +0100

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"The goal with products is to give people a great story to tell, so they can tell two friends, and..."

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:16:54 +0100

“The goal with products is to give people a great story to tell, so they can tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on. Being new is a great advantage on this front. Would you go tell a friend about Pepsi? No, because they’ve been around too long. That’s the advantage of being David in the David and Goliath story.”

- Mark Hughes, author of “Buzzmarketing”

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not..."

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:53:54 +0100

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.”

- David Allen

"David Axmark resigned stating “I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking..."

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:37:56 +0200

“David Axmark resigned stating “I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me to “retire” from employment and work with MySQL and Sun on a less formal basis.” If I may paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one co-founder may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

- 451 CAOS Theory » What did I miss?

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. – Albert..."

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:22:13 +0200

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. – Albert Einstein”

- The Albert Einstein Experience: Jokes, Relativity and Black Holes

"We came up with a name [for a company], `Telemon,’ ” says Meyer. “It was..."

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:18:12 +0200

““We came up with a name [for a company], `Telemon,’ ” says Meyer. “It was wonderful—until we went to Thailand, where it means `intercourse with your mother.’ “”

- U.S. News 10/13/97