Stanley Bing quotes
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“"Hi," I said. She came over, licked my hand discreetly, allowed herself to be scratched for a time, chased her tail in a dignified circle, lay down again. I remember thinking: "There are times God puts a choice in front of you." I often had such thoughts back then. We took the dog.”
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“Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.”
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“Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb”
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“There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.”
-- Stanley BingSource : "Landmark Study Reveals That CEOs Are Remarkably Similar to Babies" by Stanley Bing, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.
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“I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.”
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“Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.”
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“What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.”
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“After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.”
-- Stanley BingSource : Stanley Bing (2009). “Crazy Bosses: Fully Revised and Updated”, p.1, Harper Collins
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“There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.”
-- Stanley BingSource : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
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“Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.”
-- Stanley BingSource : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
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“If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.”
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“My favorite method of procrastination is to do something else that needs doing, but not quite so imminently. Sleeping is also good, as is drinking until you really can't do anything very well anymore.”
-- Stanley BingSource : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
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“I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.”
-- Stanley BingSource : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
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“I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.”
-- Stanley Bing
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