Hypergogue’s most loved Quotables

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an eye for resemblance.

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

Don't just do something. Stand there.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.

Getting information from a table is like extracting sunlight from a cucumber.

Many companies eject the critical cultural organisms that will process dead matter into nourishment.

The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.

Birthday cake is the most denatured thing on earth.

Everyone is entitled to his opinion, but not his own facts.

The question is not who’s best at performing high-priority functions, but which things can you and only you as the CEO get done? If you don’t ask yourself that question, your time allocations are bound to be wrong.

The biggest challenge with deploying Sharepoint isn't that the technology isn't great but that it doesn't challenge deeply held assumptions about what it takes to run a business. It really is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The engineering metaphors which have dominated management thinking since the 80s failed to understand the cognitive, temporal and social aspects of apprentice models.

Quality is a probabilistic function of quantity.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Investors like risk, as long as they can price it.