Metaskills Quotes

“Miles Davis once said: “Do not fear mistakes—there are none.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“Great ideas are not polite. They never say they’re sorry. They don’t try to fit in. On the contrary, they force the world around them to make changes in self-defense.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“the lessons of your heroes. Über-restaurateur Reed Hearon said, “If you read two books on a subject written by knowledgeable people, you will know more than 95% of the people in the entire world know about that subject.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“New ideas capture and possess the mind that births them,” said Robert Grudin in The Grace of Great Things. “They colonize it and renew its laws.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“When your goal is to describe a vision for the future, information is not enough. People are up to their necks in information. What they need is a way to imagine life after the change, and compare it with life today. That’s why it’s called a vision and not a plan.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“It now seems possible, even necessary, to reconnect art with science, synthesis with analysis, magic with logic.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“When you shift your focus from getting grades to gaining understanding, you set yourself on the road to mastery. You begin learning how to learn.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“Extreme resistance can be a portent of extreme success.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“The truth is, most people love change until it affects them.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“All the lessons of invention come down to this: The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“If a man writes clearly enough,” said Hemingway, “anyone can see if he fakes.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“Uncluding is the art of subtracting every element that doesn’t pull its weight.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“If you find it hard to describe your idea, don’t fix your description. Fix your idea.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“In developing talent, hard work trumps genetics.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“We’ve been trained by Industrial Age marketers to believe anything good is already on the shelf.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“If our rational brains were deprived of emotion, even the most banal decisions would become impossible.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“If we can’t find valuable work, it’s not because we’re in a recession; we’re in a recession because we can’t find valuable work. We’ve been confusing cause and effect.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“They copied all they could follow, but they couldn’t copy my mind. So I left ’em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

“Moore’s Law, the 1965 prediction that the amount of computing power you can buy for a dollar will double every 18 months. Gordon Moore’s formula has surprised everyone with its consistency.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Future of Work

“There’s a growing recognition that the great advances of the future will come not from a single man or woman, but from the concentrated effort of a group. The operating principle today is, “None of us are as smart as all of us.” Yet to activate the creativity of a group—whether it’s a team, a company, a community, or a nation—we’ll need to bring our best selves to the party.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Future of Work

“We have an unfounded fear that machines will someday start thinking like humans. What we should really fear is that humans have already started thinking like machines.”
― Marty Neumeier, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age