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Rules of The Garage

I found these quite interesting based on the original garage where HP was birthed

Behold: The Rules of the Garage

  • Believe you can change the world.
  • Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever.
  • Know when to work alone and when to work together.
  • Share tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues.
  • No Politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage).
  • The customer defines a job well done.
  • Radical ideas are not bad ideas.
  • Invent different ways of working.
  • Make a contribution every day. If it doesn’t contribute, it doesn’t leave the garage.
  • Believe that together we can do anything.
  • Invent.

One more thing. Or six actually. These are my own bits of inspiration:

“Any problem can be solved with the materials available in the room at the time.”
— Edwin Land

“When working on a problem, I never think about beauty; I only think of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know that it is wrong.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
— Thomas J. Watson

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
— Colin Powell

“The odds are greatly against you being immensely smarter than everyone else in the field. If your analysis says your terminal velocity is twice the speed of light, you may have invented warp drive, but the chances are a lot better that you’ve screwed up.”
— attributed to Dave Akin

“If you are going through Hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill

Taken from blog.wired.com thnx to @bobbygwald

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