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Priceless and sadly, often accurate:

Too much vision of execution and not enough execution of the vision.

From Jean-Louis Gassée‘s The Apple Licensing Myth at Monday Note:

[...] like spinach being good for you because it held the iron your red cells needed. After decades of the disgusting veggie inflicted upon young kids – I remember, a scientist went back to the bench and found out there was no digestible iron whatsoever in spinach. You don’t get calcium by ingesting chalk, you need a calcium compound that’ll get through the sophisticated filters in the digestive system. Eating spinach gives you as much digestible iron as sucking nails.

It’s the little things that make it all worthwhile. Seriously now, the article is a really good read as a whole.

The optimist thinks the glass is half full. The pessimist thinks the glass is half empty. The engineer knows the real truth: that the glass is twice as large as it should be for optimum utilization of resources.

Dale Andreatta, as quoted by Burkhard Bilger in the New Yorker December 21 issue’s essay Hearth Surgery .

Alexei sent out this fine piece of wisdom.

“Is not that we shoot ourselves in the foot, it’s how quickly we reload”