Kingsley Joseph is founder of Petal Flame, a startup focused on innovative mobile social apps.
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"All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer."
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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"That is exactly what places like Yale mean when they talk about training leaders … People who make it to the top. People who can climb the greasy pole of whatever hierarchy they decide to attach themselves to."
Solitude and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar
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"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”
"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”
- Bill Bryson"
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"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.”
