Hofstadter’s Law
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
Category Archives: Quote
Theodore Isaac Rubin on working
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
Benjamin Franklin on… productivity
Jeff Bezos on brands and reputation
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
— Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos on customer service
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends.
If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.– Jeff Bezos
What rhymes with “buy”?
Among the many poems and nursery rhymes I read to my children, I found one quite amusing and I would like to share it with you.
It’s called “Teenage Princess”:
I know how it is to need money –
As much as I can get;
My teenager goes to the mall,
And I go into debt.
Most kids’ first words are “Ma-ma,”
She said “Vi-sa” with a smile;
She has a black belt in shopping,
And a package from every aisle!
By Joanna Fuchs
Paul Graham about prices…
“You’ve found market price when buyers complain but still pay.”
– Paul Graham, Y Combinator
John Maynard Keynes said: “If you owe your bank…”
“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
– John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton
As quoted in The Economist (13 February 1982), p. 11
Steve Jobs about consumers…
“It isn’t the consumers’ job to know what they want.”
– Steve Jobs