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This page was last regenerated at 2025-08-14T01:15:46.193Z. # Content | Quote | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [[common/pages/Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Perfection.md\|Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Perfection]] Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - [[common/pages/Antoine de Saint-Exupery.md\|Antoine de Saint-Exupery]] | | [[common/pages/Arbitrary decisions for trivial corners.md\|Arbitrary decisions for trivial corners]] Just take some disorganized corner of your life that you don't have strong feelings about and just create an arbitrary decision structure and stick to it - [[Malcolm Gladwell\|Malcolm Gladwell]] | | [[common/pages/Close enough to solve, but far away enough to see.md\|Close enough to solve, but far away enough to see]] Be close enough to your work that you know how to solve problems, but far enough away from your work that you can see the problems. - [[Adam Grant\|Adam Grant]] | | [[common/pages/Do one thing every day that scares you.md\|Do one thing every day that scares you]] Do one thing every day that scares you - [[Mary Schmich\|Mary Schmich]] | | [[common/pages/Do the best you can until you know better.md\|Do the best you can until you know better]] Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better - [[Maya Angelou\|Maya Angelou]] | | [[common/pages/Everything is a system.md\|Everything is a system]] Everything is a system. Everything is part of a larger system. The universe is infinitely systematized, both upward and downward. All systems are infinitely complex - [[John Gall\|John Gall]] | | [[common/pages/Gall's Law.md\|Gall's Law]] A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system - [[John Gall\|John Gall]] | | [[common/pages/Goodhart's Law.md\|Goodhart's Law]] When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. - [[Charles Goodhart\|Charles Goodhart]] | | [[common/pages/Henry Van Dyke on using what you have.md\|Henry Van Dyke on using what you have]] Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - [[Henry Van Dyke\|Henry Van Dyke]] | | [[common/pages/In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.md\|In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope]] In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. - [[Charles Revson\|Charles Revson]] | | [[common/pages/Jevons Paradox.md\|Jevons Paradox]] the phenomenon where advancements in resource efficiency unintuitively results in an overall increase (rather than decrease) in total resource consumption. - [[William Stanley Jevons\|William Stanley Jevons]] | | [[common/pages/Parkinson's Law.md\|Parkinson's Law]] Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion - \- | | [[common/pages/Susan David on 'Just Be Positive'.md\|Susan David on 'Just Be Positive']] When you tell someone to "just be positive", you're basically saying to them, "my comfort is more important than your reality" - [[Susan David\|Susan David]] | | [[common/pages/The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.md\|The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all]] The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all - [[Richard Branson\|Richard Branson]] | | [[common/pages/There are no ends, only means.md\|There are no ends, only means]] There are no ends, only means - [[Bruce Lee\|Bruce Lee]] | | [[common/pages/Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.md\|Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to]] Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to - [[Richard Branson\|Richard Branson]] | | [[common/pages/Two-option scenarios are a precursor to bad decision-making.md\|Two-option scenarios are a precursor to bad decision-making]] the single best predictor [of bad decisions] is "did you only consider two options" - [[Adam Grant\|Adam Grant]], [[Paul Nutt\|Paul Nutt]] | | [[common/pages/Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.md\|Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened]] Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened - [[Anatole France\|Anatole France]] | | [[common/pages/Zawinski's Law.md\|Zawinski's Law]] Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. - [[Jamie Zawinski\|Jamie Zawinski]] |