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“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”
― John Naisbitt, Megatrends

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
― Yip Harburg

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“The famous computer scientist Melvin Conway coined an adage that is often referred to as Conway's Law. It states that any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure mirrors the organization's structure. Another way to say this is to beware of shipping your org chart.”
― Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

“Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.”
― Russell Ackoff

“The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.”
― Russell L. Ackoff

“Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.”
― Russell L. Ackoff

“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“Customer is an expert of his problems, not the solution.”
― Anna Haverinen

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost