The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Good design is as little design as possible.
~ Dieter Rams
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There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
~ Peter Drucker
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
~ Peter Drucker
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At the heart of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century there was an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production, which was accompanied by a catastrophic dislocation of the lives of the common people
― Karl Polanyi
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A real reader creates her own canon, for it consists precisely of those books that she has used to create herself.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Good design is long-lasting.
~ Dieter Rams
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The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. To make Adam Smith’s “simple and natural liberty” compatible with the needs of a human society was a most complicated affair.
― Karl Polanyi
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
~ George Orwell
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
~ Franz Kafka
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