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Oh the irony

“The fact that I flew here [The World Business Summit on Climate Change] to sit on a panel for one and a half hours, then I’m flying straight back to the US, is an example of our commitment to environmental sustainability”

Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, 2009

Posted by Olly on December 11, 2009 at 5:06 pm in environment, quotations
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Paid to ignore

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Upton Sinclair – I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935)

Posted by Olly on July 20, 2009 at 9:46 pm in quotations
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The false economy of scale

Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.

Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations, 1957

Posted by Olly on June 30, 2009 at 9:12 pm in quotations
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On fashionistas

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly

—Oscar Wilde

Posted by Olly on April 8, 2009 at 10:30 pm in quotations
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On Feature Requests

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse

—Henry Ford

Posted by Olly on September 17, 2008 at 8:48 am in quotations
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