Inspiratie

Een paar regels waar ik steeds op terugkom.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein, letter to Carl Seelig (1952)

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
Ernő Rubik, Cubed (2020)

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924)

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
Toegeschreven aan A.P.J. Abdul Kalam¹

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Paul J. Meyer

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Toegeschreven aan John Ruskin²

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters

There's a way to do it better - find it.
Toegeschreven aan Thomas Edison³

The most dangerous phrase in the language is: we've always done it this way.
Grace Hopper, interview (1976)

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Toegeschreven aan Henry Ford⁴

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford, Ford News (1923)

Time is the next source of competitive advantage.
George Stalk Jr., Harvard Business Review (1988)

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.
Eliyahu Goldratt, The Haystack Syndrome (1990)

Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.
Eliyahu Goldratt

The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people's skills so they can get the jobs of the future.
John Delaney (2019)

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
Tim Ferriss

Less, but better.
Dieter Rams

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
Toegeschreven aan John Gall (Gall's Law), Systemantics (1975)⁵

People don't want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.
Toegeschreven aan Theodore Levitt⁶

Software is eating the world.
Marc Andreessen, The Wall Street Journal (2011)

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
Bill Gates, Bill Gates Speaks (1998)

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
Daniel Keys Moran

The number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years.
Gordon Moore, Electronics (1965)

If you really do believe it's the very, very beginning, then you're incredibly optimistic. I do believe there is more innovation ahead of us than behind us.
Jeff Bezos, TED (2003)

Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie, The Road to Business Success (1885)

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Een paar hiervan zijn bekende misquotes. Dit is waar ze werkelijk vandaan komen, volgens Claude Opus 4.8.

¹ Nobody can trace this one to Kalam. It reads like a spin on "Excellence is never an accident," which people love to pin on Aristotle. He never said that either. Will Durant wrote it, back in 1926. Bron

² Ruskin gets the credit, but it is nowhere in his work. A longer version turns up in a 1939 advert. The real author is anyone's guess. Bron

³ Edison never wrote this down. It first shows up in a 1957 advert, 26 years after he died. Sounds like him, though. Bron

⁴ Ford almost certainly never said this. It is not in his writing, and the Henry Ford Museum keeps a list of about 200 quotes they can actually verify. This is not on it. The line only gets tied to him in 2001. I keep it here because the idea is too good to lose, even if the name on it is wrong. Bron

⁵ This is the cleaned-up version. Gall said it first, in 1975: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." Kevin Kelly said it again in 1994. Bron

⁶ Levitt made this famous, but he never claimed it. He pointed to an adman named Leo McGivena, and the line was already in print by 1942. Plenty of people hand it to Clayton Christensen. They should not. Bron