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Then he gives a speech. Gil, who learned English from newspapers and baseball games, delivers a flowing, lilting, poetic monologue, right outside Joe’s, and one of the great regrets of my life is that I don’t have a tape recorder with me.
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― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
“The problem with problem-solving methods, which all business methodologies are, is that they are abstractions, but the world is not abstract. Real work contains hard parts that no method can dictate for you. No method can capture how and when to abandon the method or tweak it; only a team and its leader can do that. And for a team to do that successfully, they need to trust each other.”
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
“Designing is best done first on paper. It's cheap and fast, making it easy to try many ideas well before anyone's ego is invested.”
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
― The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
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“Sometimes the gap between wrong and right is so negligible that we ignore it altogether. We pretend that the length of a day is 24 hours and that the ground beneath our feet is steady, when in fact the length of the day changes and Earth’s axis wobbles constantly as we hurtle around the sun at about 66,000 miles per hour and the sun moves around the center of the galaxy at about 500,000 miles per hour.”
― The Pioneer Detectives: Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
― The Pioneer Detectives: Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
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