The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Emotions are useless during business hours.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
~ Ernest Hemingway
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With the changes in technological complexity, especially in information technology, the leadership task has changed. Leadership in a networked organization is a fundamentally different thing from leadership in a traditional hierarchy.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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Campus Life at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Campus Life at the
University of Nottingham
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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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