Each time you say yes to a feature, you're adopting a child. You have to take your baby through a whole chain of events (e.g. design, implementation, testing, etc.). And once that feature's out there, you're stuck with it. Just try to take a released feature away from customers and see how pissed off they get. - Patrick Sullivan Jr.
As the torch was passed the past was torched Armchair Darwinists may take offense, but they, like all cultural Darwinists must own up to what arch-atheist and outspoken Darwinist professor William Provine insists: "Evolution is the greatest engine of atheism ever invented." Likewise, Niles Eldredge, co-developer with Stephen Jay Gould of punctuated equilibrium stated, "Darwin did more to secularize the Western world than any other single thinker in history." And of course, everyone's favorite contemporary atheist, Richard Dawkins, spewing bilious hatred of God like a burst sewage pipe, thanks Darwin for making "it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist." - Patrick Sullivan Jr.
Yes! Thanks for asking! I think innovation is overrated. Customers don't care about how innovative you are. They just want to be happy and satisfied. And that's about good design. The best advice I can give is to focus on people and their problems. Few great innovators worried about anything else. The fact that they found a new idea had more to do with their passion for solving someone's problem than anything else. Innovation is a huge distraction these days. That's one of the myths I hope people will understand how to dispel from reading the book or attending my seminars. - Patrick Sullivan Jr.
It is in these sleepless hours, propelled by my inner drive to make a dent in world, where I find the solace to connect with the deepest parts my own soul. Some find that solace in yoga, exercise, religion, music. I find solace when I ‘do’- when every cell in my body is telling me that I am doing something that will move my ideas from my brain into the hands of millions of people. This is when I am most alive. I feel the power that we all have inside of ourselves to bring life to the dreams we all hold in our hearts from childhood and beyond. - Patrick Sullivan Jr.
How does a bureaucrat - charged with protecting the public's money - recognize a scam more readily than an investor whose own money is on the line? What information does he have that is not available to the public? What theory does he follow that is unknown to investors? What meat does he eat…what wine does he drink…that prevents him from falling prey to from the delusions and temptations to which all flesh is heir? - Patrick Sullivan Jr.
