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“grandfather, his eldest son, was starting his administrative and hopefully political career, his father summoned him to his deathbed. “My son, I am very disappointed in you,” he said. “I never hear anything wrong said about you. You have proven yourself incapable of generating envy.”

“complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.”

“The strength of the computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs was precisely in distrusting market research and focus groups— those based on asking people what they want—and following his own imagination. His modus was that people don’t know what they want until you provide them with it.”