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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c0611b | Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| e3d658f | the only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 51027c9 | Like more than one Englishman in New York, he looked upon Americans as hopeless children whom Providence had perversely provided with this great swollen fat fowl of a continent. Any way one chose to relieve them of their riches, short of violence, was sporting, if not morally justifiable, since they would only squander it in some tasteless and useless fashion, in any event. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 24140ea | Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It was merely that she had no friends. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone. | loneliness college friendless lonely | Tom Wolfe | |
| 05aa617 | So Geographers in Afric-maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 7149cd7 | When parties in a state are violent, he offered a wonderful contrivance to reconcile them. The method is this: You take a hundred leaders of each party; you dispose them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size; then let two nice operators saw off the occiput of each couple at the same time, in such a manner that the brain may be equally divided. Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of his.. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| dd7876e | I enjoyed perfect health of body, and tranquillity of mind; I did not feel the treachery or inconstancy of a friend, nor the injuries of a secret or open enemy. I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or.. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 8bbd8b0 | He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting "it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce." His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of .. | human-nature | Jonathan Swift | |
| 54ba0e9 | Jonathan Swift: 'We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. | Taslima Nasrin | ||
| 1086be7 | Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 0cfa18b | One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 708d972 | The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 9383ba1 | It's the love of right lures men to wrong. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 118a66f | You can only kill disappointment with a new try. | perseverance inspirational | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 4805574 | Make up a recipe for a successful revolution." "Take large masses of injustice, resentment and frustration. Put them in a week or failing hegemon. Sir in misery for a generation or two, until the heat rises. Throw in destabilizing circumstances to taste. A tiny pinch of event to catalyze the whole. Once the main goal of the revolution is achieved, cool instantly to institutionalize the new order." | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| d4bbeb7 | health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection, family leave, vacation; place tenure, a commons; access to wilderness, mountains, ocean; peace, political stability, political input, political satisfaction; air,.. | necessities the-good-life simplicity | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| fdbf88d | The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto's long-cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them. All human claims to the landscape were superseded, made null and void by the snow. The world was one world, and the notion that a man might kill another over some small patch of it did not make sense. | David Guterson | ||
| fa7afeb | It's so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that 'the world' is mundanely 'a planet.' The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project. | world science planet | Douglas Coupland | |
| eb38304 | The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss. | life love wedding | Douglas Coupland | |
| 64bcd80 | Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intentions | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d21bcd1 | To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves--unwittingly--to justify what was done. My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 08ba670 | When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying to establish a decent and orderly society, but the work of certain groups trying to maintain their privileges, while giving just enough rights and liberties to enough of the people to ensure popular support. | Howard Zinn | ||
| fcf24ea | Most people are idiots. There's nothing worse than idiots who tell you their opinions. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 7227c5e | Vices shouldn't be safe. They're what remind us we're alive and mortal. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 1fe96ef | When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls' pigtails in inkwells and sinking the occasional continent. | funny | Richard Kadrey | |
| c46e1e0 | Now you are thinking like a thief. Fewer guns and more exits. We'll cure your cowboy ways yet. (Vidocq) | thief-humor | Richard Kadrey | |
| 45729d9 | You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily. 'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.' ~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan. | romantic perfect-hero swoony | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 3479178 | When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, "Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?" | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 790282c | Dirty?" I supply. "Yes. It was. And I am. And so are you or you wouldn't know what a hard limit is." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| a8d2c9b | It's our scars that define us. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 0f36e60 | I love...being with you. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 55e06f8 | Publicity is effective precisely because it feeds upon the real. Clothes, food, cars, cosmetics, baths, sunshine are real things to be enjoyed in themselves. Publicity begins by working on a natural appetite for pleasure. But it cannot offer the real object of pleasure and there is no convincing substitute for a pleasure in that pleasure's own terms. The more convincingly publicity conveys the pleasure of bathing in a warm, distant sea, the.. | John Berger | ||
| dc728cc | All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisible dream. | John Berger | ||
| e47b48c | We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination. | visible invisible | John Berger | |
| ec2f95f | Not the first time Doc had run into girl-of-his-dreams unavailability. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 66b3954 | It went on for a month. Those who had taken it for a cosmic sign cringed beneath the sky each nightfall, imagining ever more extravagant disasters. Others, for whom orange did not seem an appropriately apocalyptic shade, sat outdoors on public benches, reading calmly, growing used to the curious pallor. As nights went on and nothing happened and the phenomenon slowly faded to the accustomed deeper violets again, most had difficulty remember.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 90d149f | We live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time, now positive, now negative. Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 1231dd7 | Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even greater mystery. ... The God I cry out to in anguish or joy can neither be proved nor disapproved. The hope I have that death is not the end of all our questions can neither be proved nor disproved. | faith god mystery-of-life | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7ca1f92 | Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a92c959 | Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death? | stars light world spirit death fireflies breath blue-eyes sight night eyes | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| ba31fa5 | She felt that she was being measured and found wanting. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 317016f | The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8cc1de6 | Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good." | happiness pleasure | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 22bc4a5 | Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.... | Madeleine L'Engle |