3. Seth Godin:
“A failure is a project that doesn't work, an initiative that
teaches you something at the same time the outcome
doesn't move you directly closer to your goal.
A mistake is either a failure repeated, doing something for
the second time when you should have known better, or a
misguided attempt (because of carelessness, selfishness
or hubris) that hindsight reminds you is worth avoiding.
We need a lot more failures, I think. Failures that don't kill
us make us bolder, and teach us one more way that won't
work, while opening the door to things that might.”
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/12/the-difference-between-a-failure-and-a-mistake.html
18. The future of the mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2Slxp0TkM
19. Wrong predictions
Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring
at a plywood box every night. Darryl Zanuck, movie producer,
20th Century Fox, 1946
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?
You're crazy. Associates of Edwin L. Drake refusing his suggestion
to drill for oil in 1859.
Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop—because
women like to get out of the house, like to handle merchandise,
like to be able to change their minds. Time, 1966, in one sentence
writing off e-commerce long before anyone had ever heard of it.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
30. Nearling
A nearling is a positive word for something new that you did with
the right intentions, which has not (yet) led to the right result.
The reasons for nearlings not to succeed can be diverse, the
circumstances have changed; a better option has been chosen; you
made an error; faith decided differently; there suddenly were other
priorities, etc.
Until this moment there was no right English word for this
phenomenum. There is the word 'failure', yet that sounded
negative. You only recognize a nearling when you look back. You
can always learn from a nearling. The nearling fills a gap in the
international innovation language.
http://www.newshoestoday.com/site/offerings/nearling
44. ?
Dear Yellow Pages, see this big stack of unclaimed telephone books?
NOBODY WANTS THEM. Please stop killing trees and GET A NEW
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BUSINESS MODEL.”