“How in the hell does a SVP who isn’t even a part of this project, who was invited as a courtesy, and who has never even seen the project proposal find the biggest strategic gap in our thinking after staring at our slides for 13 minutes?”
After living perfectly well out of our backpacks for the past four and a half months, we get home and wonder, “Why do we need all this stuff?”
“Don’t be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. […] The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars.”
“Sometimes you obsess over a plant and it still keels over on you. Other times you forget to water for two weeks and your cat uses it as a litterbox and it thrives anyway.”
“Good grades are usually the result of doing (or copying) all of the bullshit homework assignments, “note-taking” by copying all of the bold words and definitions out of the textbook...”