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“We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.”

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The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded,

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Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old…

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When everybody else is in a down market is focusing on what they're doing wrong, instead focus on what you should be doing differently,…

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We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.…

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Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

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Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

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To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.

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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in…

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The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking…

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Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore…

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