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Acting (top)
"The studio vice president called me in and said: 'Sit down, kid' even though he was only about six years older than I was. 'I want to tell you a story. The first time Tony Curtis was ever in a movie he delivered a bag of groceries. We took one look at him and knew he was a movie star. You ain't got it kid, you ain't got it. You ain't working hard enough. I want you to get back to class and study. Now get out of here'. I leaned across the table and said: 'I thought you were supposed to think he was the grocery delivery boy'."
Harrison Ford / Columbia Pictures in 1966
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Years ago new engineers in the Lamp Division of General Electric were assigned, as a joke, the impossible task of frosting bulbs on the inside. Eventually, however, an undaunted newcomer named Marvin Pipkin not only found a way to frost bulbs on the inside but developed an etching acid that gave minutely rounded pits instead of sharp depressions. This materially strengthened each bulb. Fortunately, no one had told him it couldn't be done, so he did it.
Bits & Pieces, December, 1989, p. 20-21
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One of the major failures of entrepreneurs is that they believe in themselves more than their ideas.
Air Asia founder, Tony Fernandes
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Power (top)
"Not having the power is liberating," says [Icann founding chairman, Esther] Dyson, who warns against Web oversight by governments or groups of governments. When asked about lobbying by the United Nations for control over the Web as an alternative to Icann, Ms. Dyson correctly calls this a "fate worse than death" and quotes this warning from a poem by British poet Hilaire Belloc: "Always keep a-hold of Nurse / For fear of finding something worse."
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Icann proves that a self-regulating body can do its job, if it has limited powers and isn't burdened by political agendas - even and especially - if it oversees something as complex, global and valuable as the Internet.