Wesco continues to try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. … It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, “It’s the strong swimmers who drown.”
— Charlie Munger
»Benjamin Schwartz’s tribute to #KennyBaker, the actor behind #StarWars’ #R2D2, who died over the weekend. #TNYcartoons
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I find that young people want what their grandfathers had, not what their fathers had. They want classic, beautiful, traditional products that they’re going to keep forever. That’s the beauty of right now. They want to make a smart purchase, and they’re willing to spend the money on something that they like.
— Frank Clegg
»Do things that have never been done. — Russell Kirsch
»Simple is hard. #design — Keegan Jones
»If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it. We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. »
»Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Kun det bedste er godt nok — Lego motto
»It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. — Warren Buffett »