make of your equipment

‘The important thing is not what one is born with, but what use one makes of that equipment.’ You want to be Y or someone else because you are utterly focused on what you were born with. Instead, you’ve got to focus on what you can make of your equipment.

Business intelligence (BI)

Business intelligence (BI) has traditionally been used as an umbrella term to refer to software and practice that should lead to better insights and decisions for an organization. Instead of making decisions based on gut feeling, an organization can base its decisions on actual facts it visualizes by using business applications.

From the Matrix.

MORPHEUS: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

There are a certain number of times you must fail until you succeed. Each act of failure puts you one step closer to success.