“Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?” KnowsMadeCertainCompanyBoysSourceComfortInternationalBulletsNickels Author:Tommy Douglas
“There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.” CountryLevelsCompanyExampleCreationSourceSkillsImportanceFundamentalsStrategyEfficiencyAdoptingCompetitivenessOpen Source Author:Mark Shuttleworth
“I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.” CompanyMaterialsSourceReportsCompetitorsAnnualsAnnual Reports Author:Warren Buffett
“I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.” PeopleThinkingCompanyEconomyInformationSourcePulse Author:Steve Ballmer
“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.” IfsEnoughWould BeValuesFightingCompanySupportProductsSourceAddGreat ThingsInsaneGood EnoughCompetingExploitsDisruptiveOraclesOpen Source Author:Larry Ellison
“You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.” PeopleLevelsCompanySourceAmountProtectLike MeCodeScrutinyProtect YouVerification Author:Kenneth P. Thompson
“One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.” NeedsKindRealEnoughRealityDifficultChallengesQualityCompanySourceInternetCostRemainsMythDataMake SenseGood EnoughMultipleCollectingIntegrating Author:Chris Murphy
“You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.” WorldIndividualFictionCompanyIdentitySourceBiggerStorytellingMake SenseDramaticAfghanistanSomething Bigger Than Yourself Author:Khaled Hosseini
“The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.” PeopleKnowsCompanyTeamSourceEmployeeHiring Author:Sam Altman
“Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.” PeopleSidesInterestCompanySourceInclinationOpen Source Author:Linus Torvalds
“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.” PainGoalCompanyProductsSourceHabitCreatingUltimateSolveReliefAssociationUsersUltimate Goal Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products