- Theo Maasen: Het heeft geen zin om zo veel geld te verspillen om naar buitenaards leven te zoeken.
- zijn ze dommer, dan kan het ons toch niet schelen,
- zijn ze slimmer, dan vinden zij ons wel sneller.
Of nog beter: Hoe is 't? Druk, druk, druk
- Ach man zeik niet, als je 't echt druk hebt, dan zeg je dat toch geen 3 keer...
- Bernoulli's formula of Expected value: E(u | p, X) = sum(p(x)u(x)) for x in X
The expected value of an action = product of "odds of gain" and "value of possible gain" (Dan Gilbert @ TED).
- Errors in value: Comparing with the possible instead of with the past
- Comparison changes the value of things.
Example: In retail always add a very expensive variant nobody will buy
because the shopper will go for the medium priced item
- What space is to size, time is to value (Plato)
- Proximity is an invitation to interruption.
- Interruption is the biggest enemy of productivity and destroys your zone/mindset.
- Getting back in your zone takes a lot of time.
- Create boundaries in time and space to allow creativity (John Cleese).
- You don't need to be big company to do big things.
- If you always do as you always did, you will always get what you always got (World Creativity Forum 2008).
- Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups (World Creativity Forum 2008).