“If it’s a blip, you tweak. If it’s a shock, you rethink”.
Malcolm McKenzie of consultancy firm Alvarez & Marsal, quoted in a Financial Times piece on UK business after Brexit.
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“Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.”
Robert Heinlein
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“People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.”
Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School
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“In watching the campaign coverage this year, I’ve sometimes had the same distressing feeling I felt in the run-up to the war in Iraq — that we in the media were greasing the skids to a bad outcome for our country. In the debate about invading Iraq, news organizations scrupulously quoted each side but didn’t adequately signal what was obvious to anyone reporting in the region: that we would be welcomed in Iraq not with flowers but with bombs. In our effort to avoid partisanship, we let our country down.
Nick Kristof, writing in the New York Times.
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“As soon as it works, no one calls it AI any more.”
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“Conspiracy theories are like mosquitoes that thrive in swamps of low-trust societies, weak institutions, secretive elites and technology that allows theories unanchored from truth to spread rapidly. Swatting them one at a time is mostly futile: The real answer is draining the swamps.”
Zeynep Tufecki, writing in today’s New York Times.
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“Globalisation empowers elites economically but disempowers them politically.”
Michael Ignatieff, reviewing Nick Clegg’s memoir in the FT.
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“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
- Wall Street saying quoted by Dan Lyons, author of Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures into the Tech Start-Up Bubble
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“Autonomous cars are to cars as mobile was to landlines. Looks pretty much the same at first, but then changes everything.”
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“Any sufficiently advanced right wing government is indistinguishable from chaos.”
Jon Crowcroft