Scarry’s Law, formulated over a decade ago by this newspaper and named after Richard Scarry, a children’s illustrator, states that politicians mess at their peril with groups that feature in children’s books—farmers, fishermen, train drivers and suchlike.
—The Economist in ‘Britain’s regulatory-divergence dilemma’
Helps explain why some reforms are so hard.
Great art makes you wonder,
great design makes things clear.
John Maeda, in ‘The laws of simplicity’
Ben Horowitz writes:
Most business relationships either become too tense to tolerate or not tense enough to be productive after a while. Either people challenge each other to the point where they don’t like each other or they become complacent about each other’s feedback and no longer benefit from the relationship. With Marc and me, even after 18 years, he upsets me almost every day by finding something wrong in my thinking, and I do the same for him. It works.
This has worked for me in my personal relationship over last xx years, and is one of the few things I seek in any good business relationship as well.
Robin: You need to get on the phone and start calling clients.
Ted: The longer I put off starting my own firm, the longer it can remain a dream, and not something I screwed up at. I mean I’m giving up before I even started.
“This is going to be launched on the market with the velocity of a fire hose and is going to just come in and take away iPad 2 sales so quickly that by the time we get to final hearing the full impact of the patent infringement will be to the detriment of Apple and to the benefit of Samsung.” – Apple’s Lawyers on the Galaxy Tab 10.1
If I were Samsung, I’d highlight those quotes in my product advertisements.
Might even finally offer Apple some royalty payments, for using the quote :)
‘TED talk a day keeps senses awake’ – Aditya.B