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How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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“Education,” said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, “is the ability to meet life’s situations.”

“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

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“We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.”
― Lee Kuan Yew

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“This country seems able to do more by accident than any other country can do on purpose.—Employee at Bechtel-McCone B-29 modification plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943”
― Arthur Herman, Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

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“Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.”
― Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

tags: efficient, error, experience, learning, right, study, success

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“I need to discuss science vs. engineering. Put glibly:
In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.”
― Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

tags: engineering, science, science-vs-engineering

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Indiana University Student Readers — 3 members — last activity Dec 04, 2015 07:31PM
This is a group for any student at IU who enjoys reading a lot. People can also find who may have similar interests and meet on campus to discuss. Mo ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 321037 members — last activity 5 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Continuous Improvement Group — 10 members — last activity Jan 10, 2016 03:20PM
I have setup this group to discuss books around the Continuous Improvement particularly Lean, Six Sigma and TOC. Other books that are appropriate are ...more