“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. ”
John Gotti (1940–2002) American crime boss
Things to Come (1936)
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. ”
John Gotti (1940–2002) American crime boss
“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin
Robert A. Heinlein book Farmer in the Sky
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (pp. 193-194)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Trump: How to Get Rich (2004)
2000s
“If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Post to comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup, 1996-07-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4sv02t%24j8g%40linux.cs.Helsinki.FI, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Interview with Jon Landau for Rolling Stone (1972); republished in The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 (1989) edited by Peter Herbst, p. 211
“If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.”
Lawrence M. Krauss (1954) American physicist
"A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 140