Kevin

“it made our workforce smarter. When you give low-level employees access to information that is generally reserved for high-level executives, they get more done on their own. They work faster without stopping to ask for information and approval. They make better decisions without needing input from the top.”
― Reed Hastings, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

“I don’t understand the whole fuss at all. If you test someone 215 times and he is always negative, then the problem is in the test itself. Well, I’m not responsible.”
― Tyler Hamilton, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France

“Adolf Hitler despised smoking. The Führer was no doubt pleased when German doctors discovered that cigarettes caused cancer. For obvious reasons, though, “hated by Nazis” was no impediment to the popularity of tobacco.”
― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

“A six-foot-tall man and a ten-pound monkey are pretty evenly matched in a stand-up fight. The monkey will be all over the man. By the end of the fight, the man may need hundreds of stitches, and could be blinded.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone