Bhadrae

“tablespoons sugar
• water
• 1 quart plastic jug
• old paintbrush”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“benefits from a solution to the needs they have encountered there. The correlations found between innovation by users and lead user status are highly”
― Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation

“In the specific instance of product and service development, a major divergence of interests between user and custom manufacturer does exist: the user wants to get precisely what it needs, to the extent that it can afford to do so. In contrast, the custom manufacturer wants to lower its development costs by incorporating solution elements it already has or that it predicts others will want in the future—even if by doing so it does not serve its present client’s needs as well as it could.”
― Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation

“That same summer another hunt was arranged for four special guests: his sisters May and Helen and General Augur's two daughters. Twenty-nine years later, in her book Last of the Great Scouts, Helen Cody Wetmore told the story of the hunt. "A gay party it was," she wrote. "For men, there were a number of officers ... and Dr. Frank Powell ... for women, the wives of two of the officers, the daughters of General Augur, May, and myself." Buffalo Bill was away from the post at the time and was unaware of the outing that had been planned.”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend