28 January, 2010
“Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet.
‘Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you’re running out of time,’ the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray.”
— Satirical newspaper The Onion
27 January, 2010
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
— Heavy words from Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose recent brushes with mortality have clearly left a profound impact on his priorities. Jobs is expected to launch the eagerly anticipated Apple tablet computer at a media event in San Francisco tomorrow morning (AEST).
22 January, 2010
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Writer, dramatist and musician Douglas Adams
21 January, 2010
“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.”
— Henry Ford, quoted by Sue Hirst in If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
19 January, 2010
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein
15 January, 2010
“If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven’t understood the seriousness of the situation.”
— Motivational speaker, leadership guru and chart topping crooner David Brent
15 January, 2010
“Don’t explain why it can’t be done. Discover how it can be done.”
— Mo Tao (404-319 B.C.)
12 January, 2010
“When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.”
— Voltaire, the famous French philosopher of the Enlightenment era.
08 January, 2010
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.”
— Alfred Sheinwold
07 January, 2010
“Experience is a comb you get after you have gone bald.”
— Proverb
