“One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.” KnowsWaySometimesShowsRunningStarsKnow HowTvsBasesSurpriseCastsGuestsEpisodesTv ShowsTrickyGood WayDisappointingGuest Stars Author:Shawn Ryan
“Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.” KnowsWayDoeArtistCausesSeeingHotSurpriseHip HopSpotsHipsHopsHere And ThereLeaksClipQuentinTarantinoHip Hop Artist Author:Jamie Foxx
“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.” KnowsImportantPowerfulCreativityEconomyCreativeInformationTheoryEconomicsAppreciateConnectionsDestructionEntrepreneurSurpriseChaosDefinedFeaturesAttainmentEquilibriumSupremacyCreative Destruction Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
“I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.” ThinkingKnowsHumansGoodnessSurpriseBadnessWhere You Stand Author:David Morrissey
“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.” KnowsMayIdeasStatesHelpingAmericaLawRaceIssuesMastersIdealsBlueSurpriseGermanyNaziReproductionEugenicsSelectiveNazi GermanyMein KampfBlue Eyed Author:James Morcan