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Children who are visual thinkers will often be good at drawing, other arts, and building things with building toys such as Legos.
Temple Grandin (Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism)
Isabel dug her hands into the bin of Legos next to her. “We should have a ship-building competition.” “Yes,” Gabriel said. “I am the King of Legos.” “Is that a self-proclaimed title or one that was appointed?” I asked. Isabel laughed. Gabriel acted offended. “Appointed, of course.” He joined us on the floor and scooped out a handful of Legos. “By my father.
Kasie West (P.S. I Like You)
When the subject of kids first came up years ago, I'd joked that the only thing I could imagine worse than me as a mother was Clay as a father. I couldn't have been more wrong. Clay was an amazing parents. The guy who couldn't spare a few minutes to hear a mutt's side of the story could listen to his kids talk all day. The guy who couldn't sit still through a brief council meeting could spend hours building Lego castles with his kids. The guy who solved problems with his fists never even raised his voice to his children. And if sometimes Clay was a little too indulgent, a little too slow to discipline, preferring to leave that to me, I was okay with it. He supported and enforced my decisions and we presented a unified front to our children, and that was all that mattered.
Kelley Armstrong (Frostbitten (Women of the Otherworld, #10))
I wasn't able to think about them directly or summon them up in any conscious way, but as I put together their puzzles and played with their Lego pieces, building evermore complex and baroque structures, I felt that I was temporarily inhabiting them again--carrying on their little phantom lives for them by repeating the gestures they had made when they still had bodies.
Paul Auster (The Book of Illusions)
A core competency is a combination and harmonization of multiple capabilities with a focus.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
I think God comes in many pieces and colors. I can build a peaceful God, all-loving. Or I can build an angry God, punishing. Or maybe I'll build nothing. God is a Lego set.
Elif Shafak (Three Daughters of Eve)
The organization's long-term success is based on a set of differentiated capabilities and its core competency.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
As I've said before, money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you the Lego kit of happiness. It buys you comfort, security, and options, even if you still have to build your happiness on top of it.
Chelsea Fagan (The Financial Diet)
Humans are like social Legos. We connect together with families. We build lives with friends. On our own, we're just one piece. When we come together in groups, we make amazing things. Our admission ticket into these groups is not our thoughts or our feelings. Our faces are our tickets. Our faces lets us look out and know others and let them know us.
Robert Hoge (Ugly)
Max: Okay. One day a little boy is sitting on the floor of his living room, playing with some toy trucks. Voom!He shoots one across the carpet, but it goes too far, to the other side of the sofa. And then miraculously, it shoots right back. Surprised, the little boy peers around the sofa to find a girl around his age with a very attractive bowl cut, building a giant Lego castle. She asks him if he wants to play, before popping one of the Legos in her mouth, informing him that if he's hungry, they are made out of chocolate. And the boy had never felt happy in his whole life. They build the most incredible chocolate castle, with dragons and soldiers and moat made of milk. And then they fell asleep side by side. The boy wakes up in his living room, and even though there is no castle or no little girl, he still feels just as happy. And he knows he will see her again. Alice: Was that me? Max: That was you. The first time we met.
Lucy Keating (Dreamology)
Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Dynamic capability is the ability to reconfigure your organization in the way that has the effect of increasing its variety.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
A “roadmap” is simply a plan for moving or transitioning, from one state to another. A roadmap provides the direction to the future.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
You can’t improve what you are not managing, you can’t manage what you are not measuring, and you can’t measure what you are not focusing.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it’s a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn, de-learn, and relearn. Limitations on learning are barriers invented by humans.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
It was a first kiss. Some things take a while to build.” “It’s sex. Not Lego.
Alexis Hall (Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1))
I build myself up from nothing, using only my bare hands and an assortment of Legos. I’m not the sort of man you want to step on. Ouch!
Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
Humans are like social Legos. We connect together with families. We build lives with friends. On our own, we're just one piece. When we come together in groups, we make amazing things.
Robert Hoge (Ugly)
It is important to strengthen the weakest link, to ensure all important business elements integrated and knitted into ongoing organizational capabilities and unique business competency.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Every time I think about Aman poems build inside me like I've been gifted a box of metaphor Legos that I stack and stack and stack. I keep waiting for someone to knock them over. But no one at home cares about my scribbling.
Elizabeth Acevedo (The Poet X)
Modularity is a clunky word for the elegant idea of big things made from small things. A block of Lego is a small thing, but by assembling more than nine thousand of them, you can build one of the biggest sets Lego makes, a scale model of the Colosseum in Rome. That’s modularity.
Bent Flyvbjerg (How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between)
Most people think the Lego corporation assembled a crack team of world-class experts to engineer Mini-Florida on a computer, but I’m not buying it.” “You aren’t?” asked Coleman. “It’s way too good.” Serge pointed at a two-story building in Key West. “Examine the meticulous green shutters on Hemingway’s house. No, my money is on a lone-wolf manic type like the famous Latvian Edward Leedskalnin, who single-handedly built the Coral Castle back in the twenties. He operated in secret, moving multi-ton hewn boulders south of Miami, and nobody knows how he did it. Probably happened here as well: The Lego people conducting an exhaustive nationwide search among the obsessive-compulsive community. But they had to be selective and stay away from the ones whose entire houses are filled to the ceiling with garbage bags of their own hair. Then they most likely found some cult guru living in a remote Lego ashram south of Pueblo with nineteen wives, offered him unlimited plastic blocks and said, ‘Knock yourself out.
Tim Dorsey (Tiger Shrimp Tango (Serge Storms #17))
Never play the princess when you can be the queen: rule the kingdom, swing a scepter, wear a crown of gold. Don’t dance in glass slippers, crystal carving up your toes -- be a barefoot Amazon instead, for those shoes will surely shatter on your feet. Never wear only pink when you can strut in crimson red, sweat in heather grey, and shimmer in sky blue, claim the golden sun upon your hair. Colors are for everyone, boys and girls, men and women -- be a verdant garden, the landscape of Versailles, not a pale primrose blindly pushed aside. Chase green dragons and one-eyed zombies, fierce and fiery toothy monsters, not merely lazy butterflies, sweet and slow on summer days. For you can tame the most brutish beasts with your wily wits and charm, and lizard scales feel just as smooth as gossamer insect wings. Tramp muddy through the house in a purple tutu and cowboy boots. Have a tea party in your overalls. Build a fort of birch branches, a zoo of Legos, a rocketship of Queen Anne chairs and coverlets, first stop on the moon. Dream of dinosaurs and baby dolls, bold brontosaurus and bookish Belle, not Barbie on the runway or Disney damsels in distress -- you are much too strong to play the simpering waif. Don a baseball cap, dance with Daddy, paint your toenails, climb a cottonwood. Learn to speak with both your mind and heart. For the ground beneath will hold you, dear -- know that you are free. And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford
Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Santiago de Chile sit on the ring of fire. Tehran, far away from the ring still suffers the same fate. Earthquake-prone, the city has learned to adapt. The city, stacked with apartments on top of one another, looks like a box of Lego. Tight alleyways, covered with buildings, stretch all the way to the foot of the mountains. The folks in Tehran don’t want to even imagine what chaos will ensue if a major earthquake strikes. The most frightening phenomenon though isn’t the rubble and building blocks crumbling down. None of that scares the people. What concerns them is if the mother of all earthquakes pays a visit, the biggest threat will be rats. Tehran’s underground has a burgeoning “ratopolis.” To every living human being in the city, there are three rats to match every living soul. And if the city collapses, three rats are enough to ravage through human flesh in a matter of days. So the urban myth goes. Even if bodies can be rescued from the rubble there’ll likely be carcasses left behind.
Soroosh Shahrivar (Tajrish)
The observation turned into insight for LEGO. The company, says Smith- Meyer, had fallen into the trap of thinking that play habits had changed, and that LEGO must change with them. Not at all. Kids just wanted freedom to experiment on their own with the plastic bricks and to build something masterful. Or as Smith-Meyer puts it, "LEGO takes time.
Anonymous
The boys just wanted to light the oven, but they ended up burning down the whole business and the family home. The children were saved, but the Ole Kirk Kristiansen's future looked bleak. Ole Kirk was a religious man; his optimism and sense of humour were well-known far beyond the local boundaries. Where others would have folded their hands in their laps and accepted their fate, he did not give up. With the courage born of desperation, he rebuilt his business on a larger and more expensive scale than it had been previously - and more so than he could afford: Many rooms had to be sublet, and the Kristiansens themselves only used a small part of the building. Apprentices were no longer paid, but received board and lodging instead. Life continued, somehow.
Christian Humberg (50 Years of the Lego Brick)
•  Join a sports team (a structured activity, yes, but better than nothing!), or take a fun exercise class like pole dancing, trampoline, or trapeze.         •  Engage in games that are fun for you. It could be board or card games, crosswords, or darts. Perhaps you love putting together model airplanes or building with Legos. Consider buying a Ping-Pong or pool table . . . and be careful not to turn that table into another place for competition and über-focus.         •  Find a play partner. Animals and children are always ready to play and laugh. Find opportunities to play with your own children or pets or those of friends and family. Finding
Emma Seppälä (The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success)
We met in the first grade, Topher and I. He pointed to my Lego Star Wars lunch box and asked me if I had any of the actual Lego Star Wars sets. I told him I had four, all complete, all sitting on my dresser at home, the instructions carefully packed away in case I ever needed to rebuild them, like if an earthquake happened. He said he had a few of them, too, but they weren't put together; as soon as he built them, he tore them apart and mixed the pieces in with his other pieces... I asked him the obvious question: "If you mix up all the pieces, how will you put the ship back together?" Topher shrugged. "Guess I'll just build my own ship," he said. In that moment, I knew the most basic thing I needed to know about Topher Renn.
John David Anderson
Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks?
Chris Bent (1-800-For-Women-Only)
If you qualify for a reward for the help you've given us, do you want the Lego?' 'The what?' 'The Lego. You know what it is, I take it.' Eleri looked slightly hurt. 'Don't be silly. Of course I do. It's Latin for "I build", isn't it?
Malcolm Pryce (Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Noir, #4))
Stars don’t just shoot out energy and light. When they’re young, they shoot out amino acids and nucleotides— the raw material of DNA, RNA, and proteins. These are carried by the solar wind throughout the solar system. The building blocks of life come from suns. Earth wasn’t just extremely lucky to have these incredibly elegant Legos here. Early in the formation of a solar system, all the planets get showered with them, especially the rocky planets near the sun. Earth isn’t special.
Po Bronson (Decoding the World)
Kasselton High was big, nearly two thousand kids in four grades. The building was on four levels, and like so many high schools from towns with constantly growing populations, it ended up being more a series of pieced-together add-ons than anything resembling a cohesive structure. The later additions to the once-lovely original brick showed that the administrators had been more interested in substance over style. The configuration was a mishmash, looking more like something a child had made by mixing wooden blocks, LEGOs, and Lincoln logs. Last
Harlan Coben (Caught)
Hey, Hayley,” I say as I sit down and pick up one of her action figures. She has Barbies, too, but she would rather play with her Legos and building blocks. Maybe she’ll be an engineer one day. Or maybe she’ll be an amazing tattoo artist like her dad. I make her action figure kiss her Barbie, and she giggles. “I think they’re in love,” I whisper. “Like you and my daddy,” she says back quietly. I nod. And emotion clogs my throat again. I turn my head and cough, and then I dump a box of Legos on the floor. “I think Barbie needs a fortress,” I say. She nods, and we start to build a plastic fortress together, because sometimes a girl just needs a fucking fortress.
Tammy Falkner (Proving Paul's Promise (The Reed Brothers, #5))
When we are mindful, we experience our social presence as a series of momentary connections with one other being. These moments of interpersonal connection are like the Lego building blocks of our social awareness. The
Ethan Nichtern (The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path)
Developing good habits and discipline, like constructing the Empire State Building out of Legos, can be a long process and a lot of work. You do it bit by bit (see Isaiah 28:10). Yet, in life, everything we do adds up. It’s true—what you think becomes what you say; what you say becomes what you do; what you do (repeatedly) forms habits; and your habits—good or bad—shape your life.
Celeste Palermo (The Coffee Mom's Devotional: A Rich Blend of 30 Brief and Inspiring Devotions)
The organization’s competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution’ it’s part of art and part of science.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Gaining an in-depth understanding of business capabilities helps today’s business leaders craft good strategy and implement it effectively.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Capability stands you out; capacity scales you up.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Capability view is for the strategic re-think of “what,” and process view is about the “executable knowing “how.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Digital organizations today have to strike the right balance of being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to make a leap.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
At the core,” means,” is an implementation and capability is an abstraction.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The capability definition is: “the ability and capacity to realize a measurable result in a specific operational context of conditions.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Both threshold capability and distinctive capabilities are capabilities that organizations have and are closely related to competencies.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, innovative, and improve the overall business maturity significantly.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
High mature digital organizations have high-mature digital capabilities not only to implement the digital strategy but also to drive enterprise-wide transformation.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization’s digitization journey increases.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business strategy.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The capability view can leverage different perspectives from different roles.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
A business capability is the firm’s ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Capability-based strategy-execution is the only path leading to a sustainable digital transformation.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if the gaps are enlarging.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right “tipping point.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Strategy execution doesn’t go for perfect, it’s the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Information Management becomes the core capability of the digital organization, and it is the key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the “business value of risk management.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today’s digital organizations.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Decision-making is a solid business capability to improve business responsiveness, agility, and competency.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
Though there are both hard and soft business elements in building organizational capabilities. Still, people are the capability masters.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
The hard core of leadership capabilities strengthens leadership effectiveness and highlights leadership substance.
Pearl Zhu (Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency)
I think God comes in many pieces and colours. I can build a peaceful God, all-loving. Or I can build an angry God, punishing. Or maybe I’ll build nothing. God is a Lego set.
Elif Shafak
I believe every day should begin and end with gratitude. I practice it every day in my morning meditation. Each morning, focusing on the reverse gap, I think of five things I’m grateful for in my personal life. Then I think of five things I’m grateful for in my work and career. A typical list might look like this: PERSONAL LIFE 1.​My daughter, Eve, and her beautiful smiles 2.​The happiness I felt last night relaxing with a glass of red wine and watching Sherlock on BBC 3.​My wife and life partner 4.​The time I spent with my son building his newest Lego Star Wars creation 5.​The wonderful cup of gourmet coffee my publicist, Tania, left on my desk WORK LIFE 1.​My leadership team and the amazing talent they bring to our company 2.​A particularly great letter we received for my online course Consciousness Engineering 3.​The incredibly fun Culture Day we had in the office yesterday 4.​The fact that plans are coming together to hold our upcoming A-Fest at another amazing location 5.​Having coworkers who are friends and who greet me with hugs when I come to the office This entire practice takes me no more than ninety seconds. But it’s perhaps one of the most important and powerful ninety seconds I can spend each day.
Vishen Lakhiani (The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms)
The moon is full tonight, a round white orb perched amid the stars. I want to go up there and see what everything looks like from on high. I flutter my wings and prepare for flight, flapping them through the air and then leaping into the sky. My ascent is an easy one. I pluck a star out of the blackness and stick it in my blue hair as an adornment. When I reach the moon, I find a comfortable spot and sit. Leaning my chin on my hand, I gaze back down at the street. The people look like tiny black ants, the buildings like less brightly coloured blocks of Lego.
L.H. Cosway (Still Life with Strings)
Lego, lets me build my imagination.
Anthony T. Hincks
Lego, brings my imagination to life.
Anthony T. Hincks
Like the LEGO blocks you may have played with as a kid, they can be rapidly searched, retrieved, moved around, assembled, and reassembled into new forms without requiring you to invent anything from scratch.
Tiago Forte (Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential)
BUILD WITH LEGO Big is best built from small. Bake one small cake. Bake another. And another. Then stack them.
Bent Flyvbjerg (How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between)
The building of models encourages to create connections between different ideas and concepts coming from different areas of knowledge.
Chiara C. Rizzarda (BIM Notebooks - 2017)
(ha!) or what to wear (hello London wardrobe) can feel like a burden rather than a benefit. Danes specialise in stress-free simplicity and freedom within boundaries. 6. Be proud Find something that you, or folk from your home town, are really good at and Own It. Celebrate success, from football to tiddlywinks (or crab racing). Wave flags and sing at every available opportunity. 7. Value family National holidays become bonding bootcamps in Denmark and family comes first in all aspects of Danish living. Reaching out to relatives and regular rituals can make you happier, so give both a go. Your family not much cop? Start your own with friends or by using tip #3 (the sex part). 8. Equal respect for equal work Remember, there isn’t ‘women’s work’ and ‘men’s work’, there’s just ‘work’. Caregivers are just as crucial as breadwinners and neither could survive without the other. Both types of labour are hard, brilliant and important, all at the same time. 9. Play Danes love an activity for its own sake, and in the land of Lego, playing is considered a worthwhile occupation at any age. So get building. Create, bake, even draw your own Noel Edmonds caricature. Just do and make things as often as possible (the messier the better). 10. Share Life’s easier this way, honest, and you’ll be happier too according to studies. Can’t influence government policy to wangle a Danish-style welfare state? Take some of your cake round to a neighbour’s, or invite someone over to share your hygge and let the warm, fuzzy feelings flow.
Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country)
There is a premise that underlies a lot of our assumptions and beliefs. The premise is that happiness is algorithmic, that it can be worked for and earned and achieved as if it were getting accepted to law school or building a really complicated Lego set. If I achieve X, then I can be happy. If I look like Y, then I can be happy. If I can be with a person like Z, then I can be happy. This premise, though, is the problem. Happiness is not a solvable equation. Dissatisfaction and unease are inherent parts of human nature and, as we’ll see, necessary components to creating consistent happiness. The Buddha argued this from a theological and philosophical perspective. I will make the same argument in this chapter, but I will make it from a biological perspective, and with pandas.
Mark Manson (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life)
Imagine building a proper city with Lego. That’s exactly how ridiculous fiction writing with AI will be.
Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Beginning in childhood, boys are typically given toys that teach innovation, creativity, and self-reliance—things like Legos and trucks, things to build and create. And what are girls given? Dolls. Easy-Bake Ovens. Bridal veils. Before we can even speak, we’re told that our value to society is not our own ingenuity but rather how we can serve and belong to others. A literal child is given another “child” to caretake. In a study about children’s toys, psychology professor Judith Elaine Blakemore found that “girls’ toys were associated with physical attractiveness, nurturing, and domestic skill, whereas boys’ toys were rated as violent, competitive, exciting, and somewhat dangerous. The toys rated as most likely to be educational were typically categorized as neutral or moderately masculine.
Tori Dunlap (Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love)
Not just hacking.” It was easy to be dismissive when you didn’t understand the mindset. “And not all hackers are bad.” She shrugged. “It’s not that much different from playing with Legos to start with, although ‘hackers’ are generally more concerned with looking for flaws in a design system than building something from scratch.
Toni Anderson (Cold Secrets (Cold Justice, #7))
Not just hacking.” It was easy to be dismissive when you didn’t understand the mindset. “And not all hackers are bad.” She shrugged. “It’s not that much different from playing with Legos to start with, although ‘hackers’ are generally more concerned with looking for flaws in a design system than building something from scratch.” They walked out the main door and south along the street. “It often starts when they’re kids trying to figure something out. It’s a game. A puzzle. Even those who do crazy things like try to hack the NSA—they don’t usually believe they can get in.
Toni Anderson (Cold Secrets (Cold Justice, #7))
When kids work hard at something they love and find challenging, they enter a state of what’s come to be called “flow,” where time passes quickly and their attention is completely engaged, but they’re not stressed. When you’re in flow, levels of certain neurochemicals in your brain—including dopamine—spike.6 These neurochemicals are like performance-enhancing drugs for the brain. You think better in flow, and you process information faster. To be fully engaged this way, the activity has to be challenging enough not to be boring, but not so difficult that it’s overly stressful. Think of playing tennis against a partner who is not nearly at your level. Completely boring. If you’re playing against someone who is vastly more skilled, it’s so punishing it’s not enjoyable. A partner with whom you’re well matched? That’s where you find your flow. So when you see an eight-year-old highly focused on building a Lego castle, lips pressed in concentration, what she is actually doing is getting her brain used to being motivated. She is conditioning her brain to associate intense enjoyment with highly focused attention, practice, and hard work. Just as frequent exposure to high levels of stress can sculpt a young brain in ways that are unhealthy, frequent exposure to states of flow can sculpt a young brain to be motivated and focused.
William Stixrud (The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives)
30. The first Google server casing was built from LEGO bricks. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the masterminds behind the largest IT project in the world started out with little beyond a pile of budget PC components assembled – or, better to say, scrapped – together. In 1996, they had to assemble multiple components, such as ten hard disks, into working clusters, the expenses for such machinery left them without funds to buy a decent computer casing. Thus, they built the casing from LEGO building blocks. Two years later, it was superseded by a large production server rack. Then, two years after that, their computing power counted around 5,000 (yes, five thousand) computers, and today the number is estimated to between 1,5 and 2 million. Talk about investment and growth!
Tyler Backhause (101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time)
He had known he was different from a very young age. He always seemed to know just how to get what he wanted. Other people, even his loving parents, meant nothing to him. They were just pawns, rubes, to be played as he saw fit. And he had always known the precise way to manipulate people to achieve his own ends. It was his genius. He could bully or charm with equal facility, and didn’t have a preference either way. He could construct elaborate webs of lies and deceit more effortlessly than other boys his age could construct buildings out of Legos.
Douglas E. Richards (BrainWeb)
Like a child building a new toy with a heap of Lego blocks, I reassembled the useful pieces from the debris of my old life with patience, persistence and a strong belief that a better life was possible.
Ranjani Rao (Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery)
Building trust back in a relationship damaged by sexual integrity issues is a culmination of all the aforementioned things—and then some. It is like building a sculpture out of Legos. Some of the pieces include time, energy, planning, vision, willingness, creativity, persistence, patience, intentionality, hope, failure, and commitment. That’s a lot of Legos! Trust building is an ongoing process that consists of multiple intentional factors divinely pieced together over the course of time with a heart attitude of humility and commitment. In
Stephen Arterburn (Worthy of Her Trust: What You Need to Do to Rebuild Sexual Integrity and Win Her Back)
There is a premise that underlies a lot of our assumptions and beliefs. The premise is that happiness is algorithmic, that it can be worked for and earned and achieved as if it were getting accepted to law school or building a really complicated Lego set. If I achieve X, then I can be happy. If I look like Y, then I can be happy. If I can be with a person like Z, then I can be happy.
Mark Manson (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life)
A child, maybe five, catches my eye. He has stacked his Lego bricks into a tall building. After showing everyone his feat, he pulls one arm back and with a swift chop tumbles them all to the ground. A human instinct, I muse. Destroy that which we have built.
Sejal Badani (Trail of Broken Wings)
They stopped at a toy shop on the way, and Charlie picked out an enormous LEGO robot. “That seems a little bit over the top,” Juliet said when she saw the size of it. “I mean, I know he’s sick, but…” “He went to the hospital, Juliet,” Charlie said defensively. “He deserves something special.” Oscar loved the robot. Charlie sat on the end of his bed for two hours, helping him build it.
Annabel Smith (Whiskey & Charlie)
the move toward object-oriented programming, where applications could be fashioned out of small, predefined blocks of code, was a lot like building with LEGO.
David Robertson (Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry)
I learned that each character can be broken into components: far left, top, middle, etc. These LEGO pieces, referred to as radicals, form the building blocks from which all kanji are made.
Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life)
I’m thinking, ‘This is what I want to happen.’ Then I make the footage tell that story,” the editor told me. “I don’t care what [actually] happens. It’s like I’m handed a big bucket of Legos and think, ‘What do I want to build today?
Amy Kaufman (Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure)
When users develop an innovation for themselves, they end up intimately knowing the actual quality of the solution they have developed, and knowing why and how it is appropriate to their task. As an example, an engineer building a million-dollar process machine for in-house use might feel it perfectly acceptable to install a precisely right and very cheap computer controller made and prominently labeled by Lego, a manufacturer of children’s toys. (Lego provides computer controllers for some of its children’s building kit products.) But if that same engineer saw a Lego controller in a million-dollar process machine his firm was purchasing from a specialist high-end manufacturer, he might not know enough about the design details to know that the Lego controller was precisely right for the application. In that case, the engineer and his managers might well regard the seemingly inappropriate brand name as an indirect signal of bad quality.
Eric von Hippel (Democratizing Innovation)
A worldview is not a Lego set where a block is added here, removed there. It’s a fortress that is defended tooth and nail, with all possible reinforcements, until the pressure becomes so overpowering that the walls cave in.
Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World)
Pompano Beach, the central landing pad for snow birds, is marked by high-rise apartment buildings that look like they're constructed of cement Legos, decorated inside with plaques etched with the Residents Rules Of Conduct, a list to rival the Magna Carta.
Lisa K Friedman
Early in life, many dyslexic children with prominent M-strengths seem naturally drawn to engage in highly spatial tasks. In a survey of children from our practice (ages seven to fifteen), we found that children with dyslexia engaged in building projects—everything from LEGOs and K’NEX to small models to massive outdoor landscaping and construction projects—at nearly twice the rate of their nondyslexic peers.
Brock L. Eide (The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain)
Inspiration is an awesome thing, but expecting inspiration alone to carry the weight of your dreams is like thinking your five year old, who is good with Legos, can build a skyscraper, right now!
Mark R. Morris Jr. (Creativity: Have More great ideas Do More Awesome Stuff)