Lovallo Tree Quotes & Sayings

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. — Adam Smith

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. — Mary McCarthy

It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind. — Al Ries

The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure. — Robert Andrews Millikan

If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don't give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67) — Swami Satchidananda

Youth is always an enemy to the old ... — Ellen Glasgow

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. — Branch Rickey

I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on. — Charlie Munger

The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically. — Ralph Ellison

This is my heart - carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes. — Catherynne M Valente

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired, — Fannie Lou Hamer