Andy

“People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.”
― Dominick Dunne

“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“There are good checklists and bad, Boorman explained. Bad checklists are vague and imprecise. They are too long; they are hard to use; they are impractical. They are made by desk jockeys with no awareness of the situations in which they are to be deployed. They treat the people using the tools as dumb and try to spell out every single step. They turn people’s brains off rather than turn them on. Good checklists, on the other hand, are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything—a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps—the ones that even the highly skilled professionals using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical. The power of”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“If you really want to help this world, what you really will have to teach is how to live in it.”
― Joseph Campbell