"The harder you fight to hold on to……" — John Seely Brown
"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them."
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13 Quotes by John Seely Brown
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The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation…
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The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of…
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It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it…
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For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as…
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If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then…
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If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.
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The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to…
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Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.
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The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients…
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People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information…
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The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.
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We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.
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More Assumption Quotes
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
— Lester Bangs
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many…
— Gary Becker
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The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
— Russell Brand
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the…
— Harry Browne
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the…
— Warren Buffett
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song,…
— Julie Burchill
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
— Ken Burns
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
— Alan Alda
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The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you…
— David Byrne
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
— Sherman Alexie
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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