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Mélanie Berliet

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6,037 quotes curated by Mélanie Berliet:

“I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Why I wear the same T-shirt every day
Tagged: Wearing The Same Clothes Over and Over Again, Zuckerberg T-Shirt, Work Strategies, Focus
“It takes courage to choose hope over fear. As I look around the world, I’m starting to see people and nations turning inward, against the idea of a connected world and a global community. The path forward is to bring people together, not push them apart. I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others’. I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases even for cutting access to the internet.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, F8 2016 Day 1 Keynote
Tagged: Connection, Bringing The World Together
“Understanding who you serve is always a very important problem, and it only gets harder the more people that you serve. We try to pay a lot of attention to this by a combination of very rigorous quantitative and qualitative feedback. But if you’re serving 1.2 billion people, it’s very hard.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, Can Facebook Innovate? A Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg
Tagged: Customer Analysis, Customer Data, User Testing
“It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.”
— Sam Harris, The End of Faith
Tagged: Against Religion, Religion Is Crazy
“The central tenet of every religious tradition is that all others are mere repositories of error or, at best, dangerously incomplete. Intolerance is thus intrinsic to every creed.”
— Sam Harris, The End of Faith
Tagged: Religion, Against Religion
“Toolkit for clear thinking: Start with the end goal in mind. Think from the perspective of the other person.”
— Carl Pei
Tagged: Clarity, Design, Work Strategies, Thinking Straight, Focus, (Examples of Good Tags)
“Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it.”
— Jasper Johns, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art
Tagged: Painting, Artistic Process
“I really like showing what shocks people. I know that people don't like to tell the truth all the time, but what people don't like to say is exactly what drives me to paint.”
— Chéri Samba, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art
Tagged: Painting, Artistic Process, Repression
“I will give you an idea that nobody has heard about yet. The southern border. Lots of sun, lots of heat. We are thinking about building a wall as a solar wall. So it creates energy. And pays for itself. Think of it, the higher it goes, the more valuable it is. Pretty good imagination, right? My idea!”
— Donald Trump, Trump's new idea -- a 'solar wall' on Mexican border
Tagged: Solar Walls, Trump Administration, Quote of the Moment
“Simple is not easy.”
— Carl Pei
Tagged: Minimalism