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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. (Arthur C. Clarke).

1°) Who is the author? Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is a British science fiction writer whom you are surely familiar with through one of his most famous works, namely 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scientist and inventor, he also worked on technological concepts, in particular geostationary communication satellites, the concept of which he originated. 2°) Context of the quote From a temporal point of view, he is said to have made this quote for the first time in 1969 in a newspaper interview in relation to 2001: A Space Odyssey. He repeated it in another interview a few...

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. (Arthur C. Clarke).

1°) Who is the author? Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is a British science fiction writer whom you are surely familiar with through one of his most famous...

Show me a completely smooth process and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes, real boats rock. (Frank Herbert)

1°) Who is the author? Frank Herbert is an American science fiction writer, mainly known for Dune, a saga that combines politics, ecology, philosophy and power struggles. 2°)...

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics (Robert Solow)

In 1987, Nobel Prize-winning American economist Robert Solow famously said: “ You can see the computer age everywhere, except in productivity statistics. This observation, known as...

Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work

"Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work". At first sight this quote from Peter Drucker is...

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years…

Some time ago I pointed out that, paradoxically, the dynamism of the digital world could be a factor of inertia in businesses. This is...

Computing is not about computers anymore. It’s about living. (Nicholas Negroponte – MIT Media Lab)

This quote from MIT Media Lab's Nicholas Negroponte must be one of those I use the most since it perfectly illustrates the paradigm shift...

Learn to look after your employees, the rest will follow (Richard Branson)

A so obvious advice from Richard Branson that I wonder why we still need to explain it and spread the word again and again. However,...

[Quote] Markets are conversations

"Markets are conversations" That's the first these of the cluetrain manifesto. No matter the documents dates from 1999, it's been used to trigger the earliest...

[Quote] In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data (Deming)

That's a quote many people like to mention but that's widely overlooked when it comes to actual work. It says that expect in one...
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