Bob Herbold quotes

Bob Herbold quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.”
-- Bob Herbold

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“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
“When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.”
“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.”
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
“Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israelâ€™s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.”
“Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.”
“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”

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