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One person’s friction is another person’s revenue.

– Joichi Ito

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him — worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done and his aim is fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

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In any sufficiently complex system, you can consistently assert falsehoods.

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In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.

– Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

Planning applies established procedures to solve a largely understood problem within an accepted framework. Design inquires into the nature of a problem to conceive a framework for solving that problem. In general, planning is problem solving, while design is problem setting. Where planning focuses on generating a plan—a series of executable actions—design focuses on learning about the nature of an unfamiliar problem.

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A perfect formulation of a problem is already half its solution.

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I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.

– Charlie Munger

Free will exists in situations in which people who are similar to each other make different choices.

– Albert Wenger

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now and then – are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.

– Robert Heinlein