"The ideal project is one where people don’t have meetings, they have lunch."
Fast Company:: Lunch Hunch II
"Nature’s bounty is not easy to count, partly because she was kind enough not to bill us for it."
The Economist :: The world’s wealth is looking increasingly unnatural
"Consider the earth’s history as the old measure of the English yard, the distance from the king’s nose to the tip of his outstretched hand. One stroke of a nail file on his middle finger erases human history."
Long Now Blog :: Six Ways to Think Long-term: A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors
"The best businesses take unpromising inputs and conjure from them a stable stream of profits."
The Economist :: The Golden Hoard
“No additional book about her is strictly necessary, but then neither is chocolate.” (Victoria Glendinning on Virginia Woolf)
Five Books :: Alexandra Harris on Modernism
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