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The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

Steven Sinofsky

...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten fingers on which men learned to count, that is, to carry...

Anti-Duhring: Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science

Liberals and conservatives tend to view the economy in purely materialistic terms. They make growth, security, and prosperity ends in themselves. They exalt enlightened self-interest. They tell us that productive work is the fundamental source of hum...

Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It

No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and - as a special class within the whole - mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it carries on. Through the condition at any moment of its somatic, es...

My View of the World

Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge ingots, weapons, tools, and so on are completely i...

L'Ève Future

I vow to ingest only items that preserve well-being, peace, and joy in my body and my consciousness... Practicing a diet is the essence of this precept. Wars and bombs are the products of our consciousness individually and collectively. Our collectiv...

For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life

Because that happened to me when I was little, this is how I will now treat other people"; "Because so and so beat me up and hurt me a long time ago, that gives me the right to treat people the way I treat them, today"; "Because life was hard on me, ...

C. JoyBell C.

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.

Flashes of Thought

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Human, All Too Human

A blanket could be used at the end of meetings, to wrap things up—sort of like a big office burrito of productivity.


Brick and Blanket

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Big Brother

Also, I didn’t trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.

Bloodlines

I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide if I am capable of being in what might be a crummy TV production.

Peter Capaldi

Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

Timothy Noah

Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.

Jennifer Pahlka

It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.

Brandon Routh

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearin...

Harvey Mackay

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

Kelly Wearstler