Business Quote by Alan Kay Download Open image “Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.” — Alan Kay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Company Enough Favourite Labs Research
If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company,… — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry. — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time. — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself. — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Active listening is one of the best services a company can provide.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it. — Jack Nichols Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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