Fragments of Clarity http://falan.com/blog Falan Austin Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:09:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en http://falan.com/blog/?p=86 http://falan.com/blog/?p=86#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:09:37 +0000 Administrator innovation http://falan.com/blog/?p=86 “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

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=86 On Wisdom http://falan.com/blog/?p=84 http://falan.com/blog/?p=84#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:15:33 +0000 Administrator philosophy http://falan.com/blog/?p=84 “Silence is a fence which preserves wisdom.”

–Pirkei Avot

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=84 http://falan.com/blog/?p=83 http://falan.com/blog/?p=83#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:19:24 +0000 Administrator strategy http://falan.com/blog/?p=83 “You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.”

–Jack Welch

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=83 http://falan.com/blog/?p=82 http://falan.com/blog/?p=82#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:17:09 +0000 Administrator business http://falan.com/blog/?p=82 “We have a ’strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.”

–Herb Kelleher

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=82 http://falan.com/blog/?p=81 http://falan.com/blog/?p=81#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:09:30 +0000 Administrator innovation http://falan.com/blog/?p=81 “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”

–Tom Peters

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=81 on market research http://falan.com/blog/?p=80 http://falan.com/blog/?p=80#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:53:18 +0000 Administrator innovation http://falan.com/blog/?p=80 “If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

 –Henry Ford

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=80 http://falan.com/blog/?p=79 http://falan.com/blog/?p=79#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:04:21 +0000 Administrator hr http://falan.com/blog/?p=79 “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

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=79 http://falan.com/blog/?p=78 http://falan.com/blog/?p=78#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:34:37 +0000 Administrator philosophy http://falan.com/blog/?p=78 “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

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=78 http://falan.com/blog/?p=77 http://falan.com/blog/?p=77#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:27:22 +0000 Administrator philosophy http://falan.com/blog/?p=77 “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=77 A path of pleasantness and peace http://falan.com/blog/?p=76 http://falan.com/blog/?p=76#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:00:24 +0000 Administrator philosophy http://falan.com/blog/?p=76 “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 ]]> http://falan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=76