Sie legen damit die Latte hoch und lassen sich von dem, was momentan alles nicht geht, gar nicht erst blockieren.

Philosophischer gesagt: Alle Dinge werden zweimal geschaffen! Das erste mal als eine Idee vor unserem geistigen Auge, das zweite mal physisch in der realen Welt.

Philosophischer gesagt: Alle Dinge werden zweimal geschaffen! Das erste mal als eine Idee vor unserem geistigen Auge, das zweite mal physisch in der realen Welt.

Philosophischer gesagt: Alle Dinge werden zweimal geschaffen! Das erste mal als eine Idee vor unserem geistigen Auge, das zweite mal physisch in der realen Welt.

Was in der realen Welt entsteht, folgt immer dem, was zuerst in unserem Kopf war. So wie jedes Haus im Bau dem Plan des Architekten folgt.

Beim Echo begann alles mit einer imaginären Pressemitteilung: Das Entwicklerteam setzte sich hin und verfasste den Text zur Veröffentlichung des fertigen Produkts. Dabei ignorierten sie alle technischen Details und alle möglichen Schwierigkeiten. Dann schrieben sie die FAQs, also die Antworten

Das Amazon-Team rollt das Feld von hinten auf: „We have a thing called ‚working backwards‘“ – Man denkt vom Ende her und bewegt sich dann rückwärts zum Ist-Zustand.

Innovation mit dem Ende im Sinn zu beginnen

WER INNOVATIV SEIN WILL, BEGINNT NIE MIT DEM ANFANG

dass erfolgreiche Menschen „schon am Anfang das Ende im Sinn haben“. Sie treffen Entscheidungen, handeln danach und leben in dem Bewusstsein, des daraus entstehenden Ergebnisses.

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.

Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Music was my one way to vent.

I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.

When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that. And you've just got to go, 'It doesn't actually matter.'

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.