In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
There are principles that govern human effectiveness – natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.
Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.
Exploration by real people inspires us.
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.
The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.
And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn’t quite of the real world.
Life isn’t always a butcher’s game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they’re precious.
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do – make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you’ve never been. It’s the most amiable sort of magic I know.