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{{a| | {{a|gsv|}}{{quote|''Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.'' | ||
: — Reinhold Niebuhr}} | : — Reinhold Niebuhr}} | ||
{{quote|''If a phenomenon has a complete mechanical explanation, it will have an infinite number of others that will each account equally well for all the specific details revealed by experiment.'' | |||
: — Henri Poincaré, ''Science and Hypothesis'' (1905)}} | |||
{{quote|''The question was given to a bunch of engineers: how do we make the journey to Paris better? They came up with a very good solution: spend £6 billion building completely new tracks from London to the coast, knocking 40 minutes off a 3½ hour journey. But it strikes me as an unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter. What you should in fact do is employ all the world’s top male and female supermodels, pay them to walk the length of the train handing out free Château Petrus for the duration of the journey. You’ll still have about £3 billion pounds left and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down. | {{quote|''The question was given to a bunch of engineers: how do we make the journey to Paris better? They came up with a very good solution: spend £6 billion building completely new tracks from London to the coast, knocking 40 minutes off a 3½ hour journey. But it strikes me as an unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter. What you should in fact do is employ all the world’s top male and female supermodels, pay them to walk the length of the train handing out free Château Petrus for the duration of the journey. You’ll still have about £3 billion pounds left and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down. | ||
: — [[Rory Sutherland]]<ref>Transcript of his brilliant talk [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/308756512?t=1579696800794 here].</ref>}} | : — [[Rory Sutherland]]<ref>Transcript of his brilliant talk [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/308756512?t=1579696800794 here].</ref>}} | ||
These tools are designed to help frame a problem and encourage you to look at it a different way. Take the [[space pen]] as a model. Or ''slowing down'' the Eurostar as a means of “speeding it up”. | These tools are designed to help frame a problem and encourage you to look at it a different way. Take the [[space pen]] as a model. Or ''slowing down'' the Eurostar as a means of “speeding it up”. | ||