M
M
& A is the new R & D
Machine
learning is like high school sex. Everyone says they do it, nobody really does,
and no one knows what it actually is.
Machines
are the children of humanity.
Machinery
demands less of you than people.
Madness
is to think too many things in succession too fast or of one thing too
exclusively.
Magic is
an identifiable sociological process by which individual fantasies become
social reality. (Castronova)
Magic is
the dramatization of explanation more than it is the engineering of effects.
Magnificent
promises are always to be suspected.
Mainstream America wants work, not woke.
Maintain
a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
Maintenance
is not a vision.
Major
ideas are always cumulative.
Make a good bluff. Then make the bluff good.
Make a
place available to the eyes, and in certain ways it is no longer available to
the imagination.
Make a
point of who you are.
Make all
the easy shots and there will be no hard shots. (Minnesota Fats)
Make big
plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram
once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living
thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Make friendship a fine art.
Make
haste slowly (Festina Lente)
Make me
smart fast.
Make no
excuses for silence-it speaks for itself.
Make no
judgments where you have no compassion.
Make no
little plans, they have no magic.
Make
smarter mistakes tomorrow.
Make sure
the dog wants to eat the dog food.
Make sure you are setting
your schedule, not just responding to invitations from others.
Make sure
your standards are high and if someone doesn’t meet those standards, take them
out.
Make the day; don’t let the
day make you.
Make the
most of the thrills and try to minimize the ills.
Make the
most of your chances.
Make your
words soft and sweet since you never know when you’ll have to eat them.
Makeshift
solutions distract from real problems.
Making a
life consists of more than making a living.
Making a
movie is like eating an elephant with a teaspoon – one nibble at a time.
Making it
charming is always a million times more important than making it true.
Making it
work is more important than understanding how it worked.
Making
money, above all else, is about buying your freedom and time back.
Making
movies is the accumulation of details. (Truffaut)
Making
the hype prophetic rather than a curse.
Making
the implicit explicit.
Making
the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely
simple, that’s creativity.
Making
the wrong move at the right time.
Malaise
and ennui are to France what “can-do” is to America: a badge of honor.
Man
always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
Man is
forced to choose between perfecting his life or his work.
Man is
still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that
cannot hurt him. (Ed Howe)
Man is the creature who
does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his
mind.
Man makes
plans and God laughs.
Man never
rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
Man, not
the bottom line, is the measure of all things.
Man
sacrifices his health in order to make money and then forfeits that money to
preserve his health. He’s so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the
present. So, he lives neither in the present or the future and he eventually
dies never having lived.
Man stand
for long time with mouth open before roast duck fly in.
Man
wrongs, but time avenges.
Manage by
your outbox, not your inbox.
Management: the road of loneliness.
Management
by values: During-the-fact or
before-the-fact, not after-the-fact-that’s too late. You want people in your company to make
decisions according to the same values as you yourself would.
Management
means the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for
folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force.
Managers
make sensible exceptions to general rules.
Managing
a company is like writing in the snow: you have to go over and over the same
words as the snow falls if you want your writing to remain legible. (Geneen)
Manhood
at its most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
Man's
chief purpose is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Man's
mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Man's
youth is a wonderful thing: it is so
full of anguish and of magic, and he never comes to know it as it is until it
has gone from him forever.
Many a
covert conspiracy appears obvious in hindsight because its components all lay
in plain sight.
Many a false step was made by standing still.
Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is
talking about.
Many a
man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change, not an end of miseries.
(Seneca)
Many a
true word is spoken in jest.
Many
attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
Many die
too late and a few die too early.
Many
ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where
they sprung up.
Many people die at twenty-five and aren't
buried until they are seventy-five.
Many scream about
"rights." Fewer understand responsibility.
Many
things are lost for want of asking.
Many
things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when
taken
little by little.
Many
years from now it won’t matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I
lived in, or the kind of car I drove….but the world may be different because I
was important in the life of a child.
Many
years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by
the things you did.
Maps are
for tourists, not for explorers.
Mara-the
temptress who entices the soul through the senses.
Market
dynamics always trump individual company performance.
Market
share is only a means to an end – not an end in itself.
Market
share is trust materialized.
Market to
your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world
last.
Marketers foolishly don’t notice, track, or interact with people
until they are customers.
Marketing
is like sex – only losers pay for it.
Marketing
isn’t selling what you make, it’s knowing what to make. You identify and
understand customer and create solutions that deliver satisfaction to the
customers, profits to the producers and benefits to the owners/shareholders.
Markets
can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Marriage is a 50-year
conversation. Marry someone you want to talk with for the rest of your life.
Marriages
and t
Mas vale morir
de pie que vivir de rodillas. (Better to die on your feet than to live
on
your
knees.)
Majusculation
-- from the noun "majuscule," meaning upper case or capital lettering
(the inverse of "miniscule") -- in poetry refers to the
capitalization of the first letter in every line of a poem.
Mass
culture is a machine for showing desire.
Mastery becomes
indistinguishable from instinct.
Match the
horses with the courses.
Math has
no opinion.
Math Men,
not Mad Men any longer
Maturity,
in music and in life, has to be earned by living.
Maturity
is when all of your mirrors turn into windows. (Thoreau)
Maturity
of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
May the
footprints that we leave lead them to believe and may all who come behind us
find us faithful.
May those
who cannot take it, die of it.
May you
always be courageous. Stand upright and be strong…May your heart always be
joyful.
May your
song always be sung. And may you stay. May you stay forever young.
May you
be involved in a lawsuit in which you are in the right.
May you
live in the most interesting of times.
May you
wake up next to each other every morning and wish you could repeat the day
before because it was so much fun.
May your
feet take you in the right direction, and with the right people.
May your hands always be busy / May your feet always be swift /
May you have a strong foundation / When the winds of changes shift.
Maybe God
wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when
we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
Maybe if
we did a better job of listening, history wouldn’t have to repeat itself.
Maybe is
a loser’s word.
Maybe
it’s important for there to be carrots and sticks in the world, even if they
are illusions. They keep us moving
towards carrots and away from sticks.
Maybe the
grass is greener on the other side because those people take better care of the
grass.
Maybe
you’re riding yesterday’s horse.
McDonald’s:
Momentary pleasure followed by
incredible guilt eventually leading to cancer.
McDonald’s
is about quantity and price – they thought they were about quality and price
(value)
Bill McGowan: These guys have great loyalty to their
businesses, but their number one loyalty is to their own tush.
McNamara
Fallacy: The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured.
This is okay as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard
that which can't be measured or give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This
is artificial and misleading. The third
step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't very
important. This is blindness. The fourth
step is to say that that which can't be easily measured really doesn't exist.
This is suicide.
McRaven: 1. Start
each day with a task completed. 2. Find someone to help you through life. 3.
Respect everyone. 4. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.
5. Take some risks. 6. Step up when times are toughest. 7. Face down the
bullies. 8. Lift up the downtrodden. 9. Give people hope. 10. Never ever give
up.
Measurability
is inverse to opportunity.
Measure
twice, cut once.
Measures,
not men, has always been my mark.
Measuring
more is easy; measuring better is hard.
Measuring better requires values.
Media is
everything that gets in the way of communication.
Media
trendsetters
Mediocrity
is like hitching your life to a cloud, instead of a star.
Meet, not
beat.
Melliflu
Memories
about the past are always about the present.
Memories
are really important, too, but our energies are more shaped, directed, and
amplified by what's beyond our reach than what is already achieved.
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we
remember.
Memory is a liar. It’s a heap of dog-eared, smudged, incessantly
revised fictions.
Memory is more than a dustbin of time, stuffed
with yesterday's trash, it’s a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can
pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them.
Memory is
never shaped in a vacuum; the motives of memory are never pure.
Memory
presents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Mem
Men
always want t
Men and
nations will always do the right thing in the end – after they exhaust all the
other possibilities.
Men are judged on their potential and women on
their accomplishments.
Men are
most deeply moved, not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of the
effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.
Men are
not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Men are
not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like,
there is nothing you care about doing.
Men
cannot escape their tomorrows.
Men do
more from habit than from reason.
Men do
not fail; they give up trying.
Men don’t
fight for flag or country – for glory or any other abstraction – they fight for
one another.
Men don’t
want to know what’s on TV, they want to know what else is on.
Men fight
for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it
slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. (D.H.
Lawrence)
Men
get turned on with their eyes, women with their ears.
Men go to
the theatre to forget; women, to remember.
Men have
a lot of feelings, and they're all anger.
Men in
general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because
everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know
what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general
opinion.
Men, it is well said, think in herds. It will
be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their sense slowly,
and one by one.
Men loved to stand him a drink, whilst women
much preferred him horizontal.
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they
please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under
circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
Men never
cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing
faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
Men
occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Men play
at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is
actually being staged in the civilized world.
Men wear masks
on which they carve portraits of what they would like to be or think they ought
to be. Opportunity, like fortune, does
not change a man-it unmasks him. What is
under the mask may surprise you-as it often surprises the man. But it was there before.
Men who
have experienced bitter compromises in their lives.
Men with
TV remote controls – like ferrets on double espressos
Mending
beats tearing. We want criticism – not the kind that merely finds faults, but
the kind that mends them.
Mentsch tracht, Gott lachat – Yiddish: Man plans and God laughs.
Miami – a
sunny place for shady people. I fit right in.
Micr
Middle
age: get to the top of the ladder and discover it’s leaning against the wrong
wall.
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a
Saturday night and the telephone rings, and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden
Nash
Middlebrow megachurch infotainment.
Might not
a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life?
Millennial
sharing migration: text > pix > video > experiences
Millennials
bring their whole selves to work.
Miller
was a genius. Carver was all craft and
no substance.
Mind your
beeswax.
Minds are
like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Minimum
Viable Product
Mirrors
are ultimately isolating; young readers also need windows, even if the view
is
unfamiliar, even if it’s disturbing.
Misery
loves company.
Misfortune
is the painful means by which humans create endurance.
Mistaken
identity is not only what the craft of acting is about; it is what much of
drama is all about.
Mistakes
are made even by priests at the altar.
Mistakes
don’t matter (they’re inevitable) if you react quickly to them.
Mistrusting
anything that might launder the truth.
Mochi-wa,
Mochi-ya : If you want rice cakes, you go to the rice cake store. (Harper –
engineers)
Moderation
is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Moderation
kills the spirit.
Modern
Elder (Chip Connelly)
Modern
slaves are not in chains, they are in debt.
Momentum
is a force that doesn’t care. Each day you have to decide whether it will move
you forward or pull you back.
Momentum
never sleeps – it’s either increasing or decreasing.
Money always comes back, but if you miss out on an experience,
the opportunity may never come back.
Money as
a message.
Money
creates change.
Money
creates taste.
Money
doesn’t buy class.
Money
doesn’t buy happiness; it buys freedom.
Money
doesn't care who makes it.
Money
doesn’t come from singing. It comes from work. (I solda un venini micca
contendu)
Money
doesn’t lead, it follows.
Money,
even more than other good things like beauty, eloquence, and charm, has a
tendency to seep across boundaries, and to buy things that should not be for
sale: exemption from military service;
love and friendship; political office.
Money
frees your mind for living.
Money has
no smell.
Money
is a lousy way to keep score.
Money is
about getting things done. That’s the velocity
of money.
Money is
always there, but the pockets change.
Money is
a terrible master but an excellent servant.
Money is
attracted by strength.
Money is
life’s report card.
Money is
not a substitute for tenderness.
Money is
not the metric.
Money is
round. It’s made to roll.
Money is
the root of all evil.
Money is
what people without talent use to keep score.
Money
isn’t a substitute for tenderness.
Money,
like virtue, is as it does.
Money
makes people just more of what they were before.
Money’s the cheapest thing; freedom is the most
expensive.
Money
makes you extremely handsome.
Money may
send a signal to children that any act of kindness can be bought or sold, that
there is no such thing as a labor of love.
Money
never leads, it follows.
Money no
longer trumps voice.
Money
provides the freedom to escape life’s unpleasant lessons.
Money
talks.
Money
talks – it says goodbye.
Monomania
is a prerequisite for success.
Mood
follows action.
Moore’s
Law. April 1965. Number of transistors
that will fit on a chip will double every year. Revised in 1975 to estimate
doubling every two years.
Morals
are for little people.
More
about being there and less about getting there.
More
afraid of boredom than of failure.
More
Americans watch televisions than any other appliance.
More and
more can be done with less and less.
More
companies die of indigestion than starvation.
More data
is not the same as better information.
More in irritation than in contemplation.
More is
not an illusion.
More is
not better. More is just more.
More is
the enemy of good.
More
isn’t better, only better is better. But we need a lot more to be even better.
More of a
serendipitous discovery than an intentional invention
More
often, I meet people who tell me they're ambitious, but they don't yet know
what for.
More
startups die of indigestion than starvation.
More
tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
More than 95% of Domino’s franchise owners
started as delivery drivers or pizza makers.
More than
once I've wakened with tears running down my cheeks. I have had to think whether I was crying or
whether it was involuntary, like drooling.
More than a few key objectives are no objectives.
More than
two objectives are no objectives.
Morning
people should keep it to themselves.
Mosquito
at a nudist camp – don’t know where to start.
M.O.S.T.
– Mission, Objectives, Strategies, Tactics
Most
assertions that a thing cannot be done reflect simply the unwillingness to do
it.
Most books that sell by the truckload sell by
the caseload.
Most of
the bright people in the world don’t work for you.
Most of the change we
think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Most
of the people you read about in history books were children who fiercely
resisted toilet training.
Most of us age away from brain and ambition
toward heart and soul, and we bathe in relief that things are not worse.
Most of
us would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Most
incompetent people don’t know they’re incompetent.
Most
innovation comes from being able to ask the right questions.
Most men
pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Most men
would rather be charged with malice than with making a mistake.
Most
modern technology is an aid to innovation but not innovative itself.
Most
new discoveries are suddenly seeing the things that were always there.
Most of my rebellions are against mediocrity.
Most of
the damage in the world is done by “nice” people.
Most of
the people you read about in history books were children who fiercely resisted
toilet training.
Most of
the time I'm strong enough not to hate.
Most of
the time, work is drudgery, compromise and frustration…it can carry a thrilling
charge of sublimity, danger and grace.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by
people wanting to be important. (T.S Eliot)
Most of the troubles in
life can be traced to saying “yes” too quickly, and not saying “no” soon enough.
Most of
us come out ahead of where we would be if we only got what we deserve.
Most of
us would hesitate before flying with a pilot who had been chosen by lottery. (Wooldridge)
Most of us would rather
be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Most
people are not fit to rule themselves.
Most
people are other people. Their thoughts
are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Most
people are waiting around for someone to lead.
Most
people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Most people don’t aim too
high and miss, they aim too low and hit.
Most
people don’t think that they’re lovable.
It takes guts to believe you can show yourself to somebody without
losing their respect.
Most people don't want to fix their devices.
Most
people feed their hungry hearts with candy.
One bite is too many, a thousand is never enough, because they’re using
the wrong substance to treat the problem.
Most
people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Most
people won’t invest the time required to create a knowledge advantage.
Most
people spend their time on the “urgent” rather than on the “important”.
Most
people will invest more on the chance to get something good than they will to
prevent something bad from happening.
Most
propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral
cowards an excuse not to think at all. ( Michael Rivero)
Most real
relationships are involuntary.
Most
things don’t work.
Most
things in the world can be bought or sold, but not a reputation.
Most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
Most
things will scale far more easily and extensively than you’d initially imagine.
Mostly
you should mind your own business.
Mother
Nature bats last.
Mothers
are our first coaches.
Motion
and thought tend to be enemies.
Motion
without movement in the process.
Motivated
people are often busy. But that busyness does not make someone more motivated.
It’s the opposite. Motivation is about why we are doing something.
Motivation
is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. (Lou Holtz)
Motivation isn’t something you can
give to someone else. It’s something you need to find in yourself.
Move fast
and break things.
Moves
that are less rhetorical than neurological.
Movies
are like passion – brilliant and definitive.
They end and there is an emptiness.
Movies
haven’t gotten better – but they’ve gotten more satisfying. (Visceral vs
Intellectual)
Moving
fast is not the same as going somewhere.
Much was
decided before you were born.
Multitasking:
doing twice as much as you should half as well as you could.
Music business makes money off everything but music.
Music is
spiritual. The music business is not.
Music is the glue that has kept this generation
from falling apart in the face of incredible adult blindness, and ignorance and
evilness.
Must my elder brother Leave me a slave to the world? & why
forsooth?
Because he gott the start in my mother’s belly, To be before me there.
Mutual
interest is often a more important catalyst to agreement than compelling logic.
MVPs are
for dickheads.
My advice
concerning applause: enjoy it, but never quite believe it.
My aim in life has
always been to hold my own with whatever’s going on. Not against: with.
My
ambitions and fantasies turned out to be cliches.
My “can
do” can’t keep up with my “want to”.
My candle
burns at both ends / It will not last the night /
But, ah,
my foes and, oh, my friends / It gives a lovely light
My
checkered past will keep me out of politics unless they start grading on a
curve.
“My
country - right or wrong” is like saying “My Mother – drunk or sober.”
My
descendants will treat me better than my contemporaries.
My dreams
were beyond my station in life.
My event
is not the discus, it’s the decathlon. More success in more areas.
My father
stole most of my childhood. I remember
the night. Like it was yesterday.
My
favorite color is chocolate.
My feet
are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
My first law of venture
capital is that all entrepreneurs lie. It’s the ones who don’t know they’re
lying that really get you into trouble.
My future
was more important than her past.
My health
is good, it’s my age that’s bad.
My inbox
will always be waiting for me, but my family won’t.
My job is
not to be easy on people. My job is to push our great people to make them even
better.
My joy in
learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
(Seneca)
My life
has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
(Montaigne)
My life
is my message.
My mechanic told me,
"I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
My mother
protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
My
notches fit her nooks.
My only
hope lies in my despair.
My
opinions have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.
My other
car is also junk.
My past
is nowhere near as important as your future.
My
problem is, I don't get the same exhilaration from success as I get depression
from failure.
My
process of listening is arguing. My
process of listening is conflict. My
process of listening is noise. I
believe, more than anything, in advocacy.
Passion and advocacy.
My right
profile was like an egg with lips.
My slow
is your fast.
My son is
my son 'til he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of
her life.
My sorrow, when she’s
here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can
be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
My strength came from lifting myself up every time I was
knocked down. Not weightlifting.
My
subjective account of my own motivation is largely mythical. I don't know why I do things.
My way or
the highway.
My wife
ran away with my best friend, and I still miss him a lot.
My work
is done, why wait?
My worst
day growing is better than my best day not growing.
Mystery
is an integral part of power.
Mysteries
are not necessarily miracles.
Mythology
distracts us everywhere. For the great
enemy of the truth is very often not the lie:
Deliberate, contrived and dishonest.
But the myth: persistent,
persuasive, and unrealistic.
Myths
that quickly harden into conventional wisdom.