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Scott Berkun collected some terrific excerpts from Pixar president Ed Catmull’s 2010 interview with The Economist’s Martin Giles:

The notion that you’re trying to control the process and prevent error screws things up. We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: if everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent error and over-plan things.

La settimana scorsa vi abbiamo mostrato la sandwich art di un papà che ogni giorno dal 2008 ha fatto un disegno diverso sulle buste dei panini del figlio. Oggi invece vi mostriamo una mamma che anziché disegnare sulla busta dei panini, disegna ogni giorno sui tovaglioli del pranzo dei figli.

Una mamma con le contropalle, non c’è che dire!

Roger Ebert, back in 2010:

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