Spreadsheets Free Quotes & Sayings

Office reformers are pulled in two directions. They either follow Frederick Taylor (the father of scientific management) and the successive waves of management scientists who thought that with enough overhead cameras, spreadsheets, computing power, and analysis, they could "solve" the organization and its problems. Or they follow the dreamers of the 1970s and '80s, who, inspired by the cybernetic-counterculture movement, thought that by getting rid of that same organizational infrastructure, they could free workers to reach their full potential by embracing chaos, complexity, new technology, or all three. — Ray Fisman

Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough ... it's too hard ... it's a dumb idea ... no one has done that before ... girls don't do that.' My mom gave me that advice in 1973. And it allowed me to never worry about what others were saying about my career direction. — Meg Whitman

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself. — Afrojack

If you're a lumberjack, you know what to do. You see trees, and you still have a job! If you're a writer, you see a blank page. You don't know if you still have a job. You might have great ideas - you may have no ideas. — Tim Schafer

I just don't like to settle. Good enough is never good enough. — Josie Natori

The water in the drains below the cobbles muttered. — Natasha Pulley

If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different. — John Stoker

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it. — John Piper

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did. — Matthew Stafford

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. — Andrew Solomon

A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation ... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience. — Karl Popper

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros ... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing. — Mel Gibson