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“What farmers could profitably raise at any given location would depend on two key variables: how much people in the city were willing to pay for different crops, and how much it cost to transport those crops to market.”
― William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

“Mozart’s earliest symphonies, brief works written when he was just eight, hew closely to the style of Johann Christian Bach, with whom he was studying when they were written. None of these works is regarded today as great music or even close.”
― Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

“Resistance to simplification is based on the belief that every additional feature, part, and function represents an improvement.”
― Dan Ward, The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse

“business that makes and sells durable goods faces a problem: As soon as everyone who wants the product has it, then there is no need for more.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things