“Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.” ThinkingWayShouldJobsSocialCompanyBlindResponsePostsResumes Author:Eric Lefkofsky
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?” PeopleHas BeensLawScienceCultureCompanyColdStandardsNegativeScientistAskingResponseSnowTraditionalEducatedGood ManGatheringIlliteracyProvokedThermodynamicsIncredulityGustoTwo Cultures Book:THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK Source: THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK
“Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” WorldFriendshipCompanyFitTravelExpectationsResponseCuriosityTemperTraveling AloneCompany We Keep Author:Alain de Botton
“Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.” TryingStatesRememberUnitedCompanyUnited StatesResponseWesternBritishOilIranContinuationOil CompaniesAppeasement Author:Leonard Peikoff
“I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?” PeopleKnowsWantCan DoCompanyPathComedyDramaResponseResistancePush UpsPath Of Least Resistance Author:Ice Cube
“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that's ruining the ocean.” WantCompanyOceanAccountsResponseOilFakeLeaksOil CompaniesOil Spill Author:Jimmy Fallon