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“One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.”

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Author:Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.”

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Book:Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”

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Book:Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

“Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician’s discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as “identities” that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.”

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.”

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Book:Our wildest dreams: women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good

Source: Our wildest dreams: women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good

“In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. There's a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say 'That's really exciting.'”

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Author:Gabe Newell

“Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.”

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Author:Jared Diamond

“There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.”

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Author:Robin Chase

“The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.”

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Book:Ball Four

Source: Ball Four

“Elders are stupid and their beliefs are old. Try a new belief. I try a new one every day.”

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Book:Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf

“Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.”

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Book:Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation

Source: Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation