QUOTE A DAY - March 27, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment...
--Bruce Lee

There is a mystical tone to the way Popper not only revered problems but almost worshiped their existence... --Alexander Naraniecki, 'Returning to Karl Popper'

[T]he Nuremberg Trials, which established the status of war crimes and thereby recognized that the conscience of every human being is the ultimate court of appeal with respect to the question whether a certain command is, or is not, to be resisted. It is impossible, without contradicting themselves, for these same politicians and law officers now to assert that it is the duty of the citizen - and of the scientist - not to ask the reason why and to obey any command. The freedom for which we must be prepared to fight is precisely the freedom to resist a command which we feel it would be criminal to obey.
--Karl Popper, 'The Myth of the Framework'.


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
All (...) at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. (...) It is therefore of the utmost importance that those, who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life (...) should add to their reason, and their spirit, the (...) habit of vanquishing obstinate resistance by obstinate attacks.
--Samuel Johnson

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
--Steve Jobs

You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.
--Padraig Pearse - a leader of the 1916 Rebellion


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

ANSWER: Steve Jobs

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