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Chris Lavergne

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4,193 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Openness does not mean lack of organization, lack of principle, or lack of all resistance. For the human being, at least, it means quite the contrary: the strengthening of organization, principles, and resistance where needed, so that interaction with the outside can be strong and real. Indeed, paradoxically again, openness means strengthening closure itself.”
— Walter Ong, Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
Tagged: Openness, Organization
“There is no substitute for working alongside someone in the trenches.”
— Matt Mullenweg, HBR.org
Tagged: strategy
“The engineer and historian of engineering Henry Petroski presents a very elegant point. Had the Titanic not had that famous accident, as fatal as it was, we would have kept building larger and larger ocean liners and the next disaster would have been even more tragic. So the people who perished were sacrificed for the greater good; they unarguably saved more lives than were lost.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Black Swan
Tagged: disaster, strategy