Today central White Cliffs consists of a pub, a launderette, an opal shop, and a grocery/café/petrol station. The permanent population is about eighty. They exist in a listless world of heat and dust. If you were looking for people with the
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“In reality, 100 million drivers never sat in a 12-hour planning meeting together, nor do they report to the same boss; but they are able to navigate the nation's highways with less chaos than most 50-person departments. The next time you attend a meeting, note how much of the conversation focuses on the "what" versus the "how.”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road
“A physicist is the atoms’ way of thinking about atoms. Anonymous”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Things reached such a pitch that at one conference Bohr remarked of a new theory that the question was not whether it was crazy, but whether it was crazy enough. To illustrate the non-intuitive nature of the quantum world, Schrödinger offered a famous thought experiment in which a hypothetical cat was placed in a box with one atom of a radioactive substance attached to a vial of hydrocyanic acid. If the particle degraded within an hour, it would trigger a mechanism that would break the vial and poison the cat. If not, the cat would live. But we could not know which was the case, so there was no choice, scientifically, but to regard the cat as 100 per cent alive and 100 per cent dead at the same time.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.”
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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