“ Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Captain Crash and the Crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we will open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal…
Kulula Airlines flight attendant - after a real crusher of a landing in Johannesburg, South Africa
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“ I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. It’s destroyed the music business. It’s going to destroy the movie business.
John Cougar Mellencamp, Aug 2010. Personally, I think the record companies destroyed the music industry they created in the first place (the industry that was based on fat-cats inbetween the artist and the fan). Not the internet. It’s like saying vinyl destroyed live performances. It’s not the technology, it’s the business model. We’ve come a full circle now - artists are making more money from live performances than ever! Welcome to evolution Mr Mellencamp. I think he needs to cheer up a little, and be grateful some folks still download his music.
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“ In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child travelling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are travelling with more than one small child, pick your favourite.
Kulula Airlines announcement, South Africa
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The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.
- Rob Kalin
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“ Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler - I just read this quotes in an amazing story of someone’s recovery from an injury, courtesy of Eckhart Tolle.
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“ The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work.
Paul Graham - How to Lose Time and Money (please read his whole post on the topic - it’s potentially life-changing!)
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“ If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people?
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“ I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
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A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.
- Zach Klein
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Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about they day they stop.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
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“ The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. it was never okay. It’s less okay now. Telephone calls are rude. They are interruptive. Technology has solved this brief aberration in human behavior. We have a thing now called THE TEXT MESSAGE. It is magical, non-intrusive, optional, and, just like human speech originally was meant to be, is turn based and two way. You talk. I talk next. Then you talk. And we do it when it’s convenient for both of us.
Rick Webb - co-founder of The Barbarian Group
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We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.
- Herb Kelleher
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“ Design is a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
Erik Adigard
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“ Good design at the front-end suggests that everything is in order at the back-end, whether or not that is the case
Dmitry Fadeyev | Quotes on Design
