Category: Quotes

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
– Mark Twain

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
– Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
– Albert Einstein

If you’re looking for sage advice on the value of collaboration, social media and communities of practice, you need look no further than that steaming cup of strong coffee in your hand. Today’s pearl came from a Starbucks cup.

If we really want to understand innovation and collaboration, we have to explore shared space. Consider Watson & Crick: how many experiments did they do to confirm DNA’s double helix?

Zero.

Not one.

They built models based on other peoples data. These models were their shared space.Their collaboration in that shared space powered their Nobel Prize- winning breakthrough. If you don’t have a share space, you’re not collaborating.

-Michael Schrage
MIT design researcher and author of Serious Play

Thanks to Sarah and John for passing this on.

“We are what we do day by day. So excellence is not an action, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life should be a little nuts. Otherwise, it’s just a bunch of Thursdays strung together.” Beau Bridges in Rumor Has It.