“One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.” PeopleThinkingQualityAcceptingBuildingGoes OnDependsReactionsConsiderationVaryMonstrosity Author:Joseph Rykwert
“Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.” WayEasyAcceptingEffectsBuildingStructureComplexesCreditCardsLegacyExpensiveOnlineCommerceBankingChillInfrastructurePaymentCredit CardStripesE Commerce Author:John Collison
“Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.” PeopleYearsUsedAttitudeAcceptingTechnologyCarFrontsBuildingPureTenPerceptionInnovationRadioObviousPhysicsInventionEntrepreneurshipRelateWillingnessEngineeringWirelessCarriagesAccepting Change Author:Dean Kamen
“Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.” TryingSaidHouseChristAcceptingPrinciplesTeachingRocksBuildingFoundationFundamentalsFollowingStatementsSandWorldlyFundamental PrinciplesWorldly WisdomAccepting The Truth Author:Vincent de Paul