Seth Godin quote: "If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out."

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there'...
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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told....
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the t...
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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...
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The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improve...
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One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabular...
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...
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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pre...
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p...
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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
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In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the sa...
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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
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Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's ...
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only ...
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Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you...
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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post do...
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Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not jus...
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Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it's the person who's challenging t...
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Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is la...
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The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The s...
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Life's too short" is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it's true. You don't have e...
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If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
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How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation...
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That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interacti...
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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for some...
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a pro...
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Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving ...
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People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separa...
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The best way to be missed when you're gone,
Is to stand for something when you're here
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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art...
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Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help...
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Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.

The lizard brain only wants to eat ...
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The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, ...
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Dig your well before you're thirsty.
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People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often ...
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The ability to change fast is the single most important asset in a world that's changing fast.
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, ...
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The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an...
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Anonymity is the enemy of civility.
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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I th...
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Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
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Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources an...
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The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It...
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Marketing is a contest for people's attention.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ...
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Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.

It's not the medium or the oil or the pri...
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If a lens makes a penny or a nickel or a dime a day, it doesn't seem like much until there's a milli...
SETH GODIN

When in doubt, look for the fear. That's almost always the source of your doubt.
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Intellectual integrity goes beyond being clever-it requires that you put your ideas into the world.
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If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to ...
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work,
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Give up control and give it away, ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is goi...
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You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all ...
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How dare you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generatio...
SETH GODIN

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers w...
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
SETH GODIN

...it was just not a good thing.
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The most popular TV show in America is a game show, ... People have been playing our games for years...
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Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed c...
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Passion isn’t project-specific. It’s people-specific
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What Wonder understood, that Otto did not, is that if your idea spreads, you win,
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We're not going to outgrow our need for information.
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those read...
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If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which ...
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to click on a link or buy online.
SETH GODIN

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent y...
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...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productiv...
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I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best...
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This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you,...
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For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better
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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous inter...
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Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our...
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The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it’s those who seek out d...
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A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts...
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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is ne...
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...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle th...
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I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then creat...
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Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them s...
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wo...
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As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more ...
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The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Som...
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming th...
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Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were un...
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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your pa...
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of i...
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Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in t...
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If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the fut...
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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo...
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The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The s...
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Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activit...
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
SETH GODIN

There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look...
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Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about enga...
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One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like produc...
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What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading an...
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Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. <...
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People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They ofte...
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Do extremely difficult work.

That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued...
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You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And th...
SETH

For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very fe...
SETH

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laugha...
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I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of ...
SETH

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
ANDRE GODIN

Thee anger, in which a person can hold, Only shows the true fear with in!
BRITTANY GODIN

We are extremely pleased to be reporting such excellent improvements and results across all financia...
ANDRE GODIN

There are a thousand forms of subversion, but few can equal the convenience and immediacy of a cream...
NOEL GODIN

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
A. GODIN

The government fails to realize if they don't declare it as contraband, how are we supposed to manag...
JASON GODIN

Vodafone helps us extend the mobile computing environment for ThinkPad customers, giving users acces...
MARC GODIN

We're not going to be the smoking police.
JASON GODIN

Anytime you do something like this, you raise tensions in the institutions.
JASON GODIN

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.
SETH ROGEN

I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku...
VIKRAM SETH

When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened,...
VIKRAM SETH

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform...
VIKRAM SETH

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, wh...
VIKRAM SETH

You can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETH

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
VIKRAM SETH

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of...
VIKRAM SETH

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
VIKRAM SETH

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the curre...
VIKRAM SETH

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETH

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying on...
VIKRAM SETH

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time t...
VIKRAM SETH

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story,...
VIKRAM SETH

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETH

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or ...
VIKRAM SETH

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
VIKRAM SETH

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
VIKRAM SETH

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or wat...
VIKRAM SETH

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are alre...
VIKRAM SETH

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
VIKRAM SETH

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
VIKRAM SETH

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETH

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETH

The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources ...
SETH SHOSTAK

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in E...
SETH ROGEN

I loved the Rumble that Shawn Michaels won. Bulldog threw him over, and he hung on by the skin of th...
SETH ROLLINS

Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1...
SETH SHOSTAK

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages ...
SETH SHOSTAK

Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand at...
SETH ROLLINS

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered...
SETH MACFARLANE

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
SETH MACFARLANE

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will...
SETH BROWN

God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG

Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to ...
SETH SHOSTAK

When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics...
SETH SHOSTAK

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormo...
SETH SHOSTAK

My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH ROLLINS

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH

Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource ...
SETH SHOSTAK

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contr...
SETH SHOSTAK

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designer...
SETH GREEN

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w...
SETH MACFARLANE

A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in o...
SETH SHOSTAK

Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredib...
SETH NUMRICH

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something...
SETH ROGEN

Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace ...
SETH SHOSTAK

For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment...
SETH BERKLEY

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search...
SETH SHOSTAK

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love t...
SETH SHOSTAK

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW

You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop f...
SETH BERKLEY

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the wor...
SETH BERKLEY

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course...
SETH BERKLEY

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY

I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY

In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has d...
SETH BERKLEY

I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, i...
SETH BERKLEY

We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY

Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3...
SETH BERKLEY

Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are ...
SETH BERKLEY

When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected m...
SETH BERKLEY

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our pro...
SETH BERKLEY

The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates fur...
SETH BERKLEY

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens...
SETH BERKLEY

New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically imp...
SETH BERKLEY

Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to th...
SETH BERKLEY

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes fro...
SETH BERKLEY

Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body t...
SETH BERKLEY

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
SETH BERKLEY

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rura...
SETH SHOSTAK

Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified ...
SETH SHOSTAK

Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed ...
SETH SHOSTAK

I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing...
SETH ROLLINS

I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cr...
SETH MACFARLANE

My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve...
SETH MEYERS

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean t...
SETH SHOSTAK

These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the...
SETH LOW

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not ...
SETH SHOSTAK

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

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If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

Seth Godin

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