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“Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.”
Jimmy Wales (1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
While talking about Wikibooks project; TED - Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html, July 2005
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
BBC Newsnight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/1988874.stm <br class="br">Interview with Jeremy Paxman, 16 May 2002. <br class="br">2000s
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Variant: Big things are often just little things that people notice.
Source: I Am the Messenger
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet
As quoted in The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953) by Isaiah Berlin
Variant translations:
The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing.
The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.
The fox knows many tricks; and the hedgehog only one; but that is the best one of all.
Fragments
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 3: Senility
