Steve Blank Quotes

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

Even a conscientious person cannot reach reasonable political conclusions without trustworthy, factual information.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

The intelligence community is intended to base its intelligence estimates on facts and analysis—not philosophy and conviction.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

Even with ex-fighters as judges, it doesn't mean they can score a fight, you'd still end up with debate and opinion.

You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping