“The answers are easy. Asking the right questions is hard.”
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 91.
“Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.”
— Charles Sheffield, book Brother to Dragons
Source: Brother to Dragons
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