Randquist Rants » quote http://randquist.us/blog Random ramblings of a Software Engineer and Entrepreneur. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:04:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Quote http://randquist.us/blog/2009/02/04/quote/ http://randquist.us/blog/2009/02/04/quote/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:49:53 +0000 CobyR http://www.randquist.us/blog/?p=157 “It is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones. The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking about time as their most valuable resource.”
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Reid Hastie, Professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business

]]> http://randquist.us/blog/2009/02/04/quote/feed/ 0 Quote – Heinlein http://randquist.us/blog/2008/04/05/quote-heinlein/ http://randquist.us/blog/2008/04/05/quote-heinlein/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:55:17 +0000 CobyR http://www.randquist.us/blog/?p=62 “In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”

– Robert Heinlein

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-h.h. the 14th dalai lama

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