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I caught a South African rolling news show called Tech Report the other day. One segment had a countdown of the presenter’s favourite all-time geek quotes. Here’s her number one; > we’ve always been shameless about stealing great ideas It was attributed to Apple’s Steve Jobs.

So the French courts are busy hunting down evil megalomaniacal firms. The kind that harbour Bond villains. Ones that bully all ends of the marketplace. Ruthlessly choking competition, customers, suppliers and anyone else that dares challenge them. They’ve even coined a new Gallic term [http://qz.com/303947/us-cultural-imperialism-has-a-new-name-gafa/

> good accounts make good friends So said to me once by an accountant with a wealth of experience. It doesn’t literally mean you’ll be bosom buddies. More that when people both provide their goods and pay for them in a timely manner, everyone works much better and

> “We don’t want perfect to be the enemy of the good, is it better than what we’ve got?” So said American Senator Mike Rounds (Rep. for S Dakota) when commenting on the supposed bi-partisan Dreamer Deal for immigrants into the USA, January 2018. Is there anything worse

Real lines said in a meeting, Part 18.1.12… Who doesn’t love a cunning heist movie? A good old fashioned caper. The loveable rogues with a plan against the evil ‘man’ that make it, just. Well, here’s a reaction from a Friday meeting. Right after news broke

[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42559436] Sjoe. As an Englishman, I’m certainly no hardcore gun-tooting bible bashing Republican. I may even be a social liberal. But I was appalled at the imbalance and partiality of Wolf Blitzer and his CNN Leftists this week. Specifically how they wet their pants

[https://www.instagram.com/p/BbMXYCQjZsZ/?taken-by=focus_sb_ltd] I was delighted this week to read anSME Sino-success [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/02/one-smallcompanys-first-chineseorder-offers-inspiration-forbrexit/] story. As well as the breakthrough export element, also because I love stories where high-end options thrive in commoditised, race-to-the-bottom, margin-slaying

O-oh. [https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/then_you_were_a_prospect_and_now_you_are_a_client_joke] Found myself at some pearly gates. Weird place. Didn’t feel real, obvs. Some old chap, perhaps with a long white beard, to a background of harps,

Sales floors around the world have various meeting rooms sprouting around their edges. What they are called brings to mind the history of why countries got their name [http://salespodder.com/figonymy/]. Famous people from the arts and sciences. Towns or landmarks in the place of company operation. Product labels.

[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/18/stat_of_the_year/] Statisticians. Oh dear. They’ve a bad rep. Deservedly. For the second time during 2017, stattos have made news. Earlier in the year, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority no less embarrassed himself as utterly inept by