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Except in very narrow cases, where theres breakthrough science tha

Except in very narrow cases, where theres breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you cant out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, youre toast anyway. – Eric Ries

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Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. – Eric Ries

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Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer anything else is waste. – Eric Ries

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Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as the X of Y, so this is going to be the Microsoft of food. And yet disruptive innovations usually dont have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isnt. – Eric Ries

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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. – E. O. Wilson

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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. – Clifford Geertz

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Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. – Aldous Huxley

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