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    Peter F. Drucker
    “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
    ― Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker
    tags: leadership
    575 likes

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    William Gibson
    “Time is money, but also money is money.”
    ― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
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    Edward R. Tufte
    “To clarify, *add* data.”
    ― Edward R. Tufte
    tags: big-data, data, design, statistics, ui, ux
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    Don DeLillo
    “Opportunity, adventure, sunsets, dusty death.”
    ― Don DeLillo, The Names
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92174 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: love
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: nakedness
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    Don DeLillo
    “To be a tourist is to escape accountability.”
    ― Don DeLillo, The Names
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    [We] saw products as garbage even when they sat gleaming on store shelves, yet unbought.
    “[We] saw products as garbage even when they sat gleaming on store shelves, yet unbought. We didn't say, What kind of casserole will that make? We said, What kind of garbage will that make?”
    ― Don DeLillo, Underworld
    tags: garbage, postmodernism
    19 likes

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    Edward R. Tufte
    “Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.”
    ― Edward Tufte
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    Edward R. Tufte
    “Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.”
    ― Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
    tags: data-representation, design, visual-display
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    Edward R. Tufte
    “Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”
    ― Edward Tufte
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    Edward R. Tufte
    “If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.”
    ― Edward Tufte
    tags: data, design, statistics, visualization
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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    Edward R. Tufte
    “Design cannot rescue failed content.”
    ― Edward R. Tufte
    tags: design
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    William Gibson
    “Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.”
    ― William Gibson, Zero History
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    William Gibson
    “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
    ― William Gibson, Count Zero
    tags: money, wealth
    168 likes

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    J.G. Ballard
    “Sooner or later, all games become serious.”
    ― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes
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    J.G. Ballard
    “Sex × Technology = the Future.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
    tags: future, future-inspirational, sex, technology
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    Peter F. Drucker
    “The best way to predict your future is to create it”
    ― Peter Drucker
    tags: business
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    Peter F. Drucker
    “No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
    ― Peter Drucker
    tags: coaching, mentoring, teaching, training
    267 likes

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    Peter F. Drucker
    “Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.”
    ― Peter Drucker
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    Peter F. Drucker
    “What's measured improves”
    ― Peter Drucker
    tags: management, metrics, quality-assurance
    149 likes

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    Don DeLillo
    “California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
    ― Don DeLillo, White Noise
    tags: 1985, california, lifestyle, society
    236 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: love
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    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
    ― Aung San Suu Kyi
    tags: asia, burma, genocide, myanmar, politics
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    Ann Clwyd
    “Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.”
    ― Ann Clwyd, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
    tags: al-anfal-campaign, genocide, international-law, iraq, iraq-war, kurdish-genocide, law, moral-responsibility, morality, responsibility-to-protect, saddam-hussein
    27 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
    35635 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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