Shantanu Narayen quotes

Shantanu Narayen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.”
-- Shantanu Narayen

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“Being transparent about our plans enables us to get better feedback.”
-- Shantanu Narayen

Source : "Shantanu Narayen on Adobe’s Future Direction: Product Strategy for the Next Generation of the Web". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 16, 2007.

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“We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.”
-- Shantanu Narayen

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“We'll have 130 million phone devices that have Flash by the end of the year.”
-- Shantanu Narayen

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“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”
“The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag
“It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that.Â But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.”
“Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.”

Source : Amanda Palmer (2014). “The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help”, p.20, Hachette UK
“I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.”
“How do you become a thought leader? It starts with *being* a thought leader and then connecting the dots back to you.”
“OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.”
“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”
“If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.”

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