Fragments of Clarity Falan Austin 2010-08-17T16:09:37Z Copyright 2010 WordPress Administrator <![CDATA[]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=86 2010-08-17T16:09:37Z 2010-08-17T16:09:37Z innovation “When they call you crazy,” said Bezos, “you know you have a good idea.”

“Right” said Dean. “If they say, ‘Hmmm, good idea,’ it’s probably too ordinary.”

–Conversation between Dean Kamen and Jeff Bezos as documented by Steve Kemper in Reinventing the Wheel

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[On Wisdom]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=84 2009-07-03T18:15:33Z 2009-07-03T18:15:33Z philosophy “Silence is a fence which preserves wisdom.”

–Pirkei Avot

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=83 2009-06-10T23:19:24Z 2009-06-10T23:19:24Z strategy “You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.”

–Jack Welch

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=82 2009-06-10T23:17:09Z 2009-06-10T23:17:09Z business “We have a ’strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.”

–Herb Kelleher

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=81 2009-06-10T23:09:30Z 2009-06-10T23:09:30Z innovation “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”

–Tom Peters

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[on market research]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=80 2009-06-10T22:53:18Z 2009-06-10T22:53:18Z innovation “If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

 –Henry Ford

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=79 2009-02-22T23:04:21Z 2009-02-22T23:04:21Z hr “Wanted. Men for hazardous journey. Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful.  Honor and recognition in the event of success.”

–1907 ad by Ernest Shackleton for crew to explore South Pole

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=78 2008-10-03T01:34:37Z 2008-10-03T01:34:37Z philosophy “Either your children were the center of your life, or they were not.  Everything else was commentary.”

–The philosophy of Alice Trillin as discussed by Calvin Trillin in The New Yorker

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=77 2008-08-20T02:27:22Z 2008-08-20T02:27:22Z philosophy “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

]]> Administrator <![CDATA[A path of pleasantness and peace]]> http://falan.com/blog/?p=76 2008-06-26T15:00:24Z 2008-06-26T15:00:24Z philosophy “Our mission in life is not to shake up the world but to fasten its pegs. Not to climb to the heavens and holler and roar, but to walk softly on the ground. Not to create a storm but rather a dwelling, an earthly home for the essence of G-d.If a storm is needed, so it shall be. As for us, we will continue on our path, the path of Torah, solidly planted on the earth. A path of pleasantness and peace, bringing order to chaos step by step, until all the boundlessness of the Infinite Light is arranged firmly in our world.”

–Tzvi Freeman ]]>