Vernon > Vernon's Quotes

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”
― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."

[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
― Germaine Greer, Daddy, We Hardly Knew You

“I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.”
― Germaine Greer

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford

“Without a concrete plan these goals were nothing more than wishful thinking.”
― Paul Boag, Digital Adaptation

“As digital professionals we need to instigate a concerted campaign of education within our organizations.”
― Paul Boag, Digital Adaptation

“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

“As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“You cannot be sure you really understand any part of any business problem unless you go and see for yourself firsthand. It is unacceptable to take anything for granted or to rely on the reports of others.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“Bad libraries only build collections. Good libraries build services (and a collection is only one of many). Great libraries build communities.”
― R. David Lankes, Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World