Consultant

🇭🇺John von Neumann

Science

1903–1957

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

🇺🇸Mitt Romney

Politics

b. 1947

"These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."

🇺🇸Howard H. Aiken

Science

1900–1973

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

🇺🇸Marvin Bower

Technology

1903–2003

"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered — what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making."

🇨🇭Alexander Osterwalder

Business

b. 1974

"Business models and value propositions expire like a yogurt in the fridge."

🇫🇷Jean-Marc Jancovici

Politics

political ecology

b. 1962

"Material can follow a circular path, but energy can only add up. One of the challenges is that even "circular economy" needs "linear energy."

🇺🇸Katrina Pierson

Politics

b. 1976

"Remember, we weren’t even in Afghanistan by this time. Barack Obama went into Afghanistan, creating another problem. ... That was Obama’s war."

"While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static."

"The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there."

"You are the strongest when relaxed and at peace"

🇺🇸Nicholas Lore

Science

b. 1944

"Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives."

🇨🇦Tim Hurson

Literature

b. 1946

"In the heat of the moment, it can be all too easy to generate solutions that take on a life of their own, without reference to the core values of the people developing them or those expected to implement them."

🇺🇸Richard L. Daft

Sociology

b. 1941

"Organizations are social entities that are goal-directed, are designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems, and are linked to the external environment."

"The problem of quality management is not what people don't know about it. The problem is what the think they do know."

🇩🇪Günther Oettinger

Politics

b. 1953

"In my homeland Baden-Württemberg we are all sitting in one boat."

🇨🇦Nycole Turmel

Politics

b. 1942

"I have to say, on behalf of the NDP, from coast to coast, I want to thank all Canadians for their wishes and really, their love for Jack."

🇺🇸Max Boot

Military

b. 1968

"Catering to populist anger with proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success."