“Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.” WantHumansWould BeUnderstandingImpossibleHuman NatureDesignProductsChinaIphone Author:Ai Weiwei
“Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?” EndsPastWishProcessImpossibleModernCenturyProductsEndurePoetry IsTransitionExtensionsRomanticismRomantic PoetryModern Poetry Author:Randall Jarrell
“The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.” StillsSocialImagineImpossibleObjectsProductsInnovationEverydayDumbConsumersDigitalPaceAstonishingSocial NetworkSmartphonesEveryday Objects Author:Andy Hobsbawm
“Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.” KnowsReasonRunningSimpleKnow HowImpossibleProduceProductsTypeInnovationCompellingInfrastructureScholesCompelling Reason Author:Myron Scholes
“Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.” WorldMeanTwoThreeNextWaterNumbersCasesImpossibleMissingProductsQuantityAccurateCountingMeasurementTomatoesGallonsDiscontinuityIntegers Author:Gregory Bateson
“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.” PeopleWayYearsWould BeEnjoyInterestAnimalImpossibleGroupsProductsHabitEatingTraditionalEthnic GroupsEating Habits Author:Gary Player
“We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate.” SchoolAmericaLawChurchLibertySuccessfulImpossibleProductsEntrepreneurshipOur FamilyPatriotRule Of LawIngrates Author:Rich Lowry
“To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.” WantIdeasProblemImpossibleProductsHotCome UpSolveSauceMustardHot SauceOtaku Author:Seth Godin