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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8d91de6 | When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 54e59e4 | Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going," he wrote in 1510. "Practice must always be founded on sound theory."11" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 56cb1e8 | 1. It is necessary for me to be extremely frugal for some time, till I have paid what I owe. 2. To endeavor to speak truth in every instance; to give nobody expectations that are not likely to be answered, but aim at sincerity in every word and action--the most amiable excellence in a rational being. 3. To apply myself industriously to whatever business I take in hand, and not divert my mind from my business by any foolish project of sudden.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3e41049 | It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a few months. Lennon was always my favorite Beatle. [ He laughs as Lennon stops during the first take and makes the band go back and revise a chord.] Did you hear that little detour they took? It didn't work, so they went back and started from where they were. It's so raw in this version. It actually makes the soun.. | maturation hard-work | Walter Isaacson | |
| aee8073 | The other sins on his list were, in order: seeming uninterested, speaking too much about your own life, prying for personal secrets ("an unpardonable rudeness"), telling long and pointless stories ("old folks are most subject to this error, which is one chief reason their company is so often shunned"), contradicting or disputing someone directly, ridiculing or railing against things except in small witty doses ("it's like salt, a little of .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| eb6e8b8 | Imagination is more important than knowledge. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4e42c1e | One day someone called the Institute and asked to speak to a particular dean. When his secretary said that the dean wasn't available, the caller hesitantly asked for Einstein's home address. That was not possible to give out, he was informed. The caller's voice then dropped to a whisper. "Please don't tell anybody," he said, "but I am Dr. Einstein, I'm on my way home, and I've forgotten where my house is."40" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b7353bf | the Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs's dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This caused many component failures and earned the Macintosh the nickname "the beige toaster," which did not enhance its popularity." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e0a7f22 | he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 99966a6 | In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 792ae9e | Einstein was asked what the next war would look like. "I do not know how the Third World War will be fought," he answered, "but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth--rocks." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 34bd3a3 | This inability to ground his fantasies in reality has generally been regarded as one of Leonardo's major failings. Yet in order to be a true visionary, one has to be willing to overreach and to fail some of the time. Innovation requires a reality distortion field. The things he envisioned for the future often came to pass, even if it took a few centuries. Scuba gear, flying machines, and helicopters now exist. Suction pumps now drain swamps.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7215d00 | Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called " The Top 100." They were picked based on a simple guideline: the people you would bring if you could take only a hundred people with you on a lifeboat to your next company. At the end of each retreat, Jobs would stand in front of the whiteboard( he loved whiteboards because they gave him complete control of a situation and they engendered focus) and ask, " What.. | competition camraderie | Walter Isaacson | |
| 835a77b | But the lie had to be a good one, because if your lie is badly done it makes everyone feel wretched, liar and lied-to alike plunged into the deepest lackadaisy, and everyone just feels like going into the other room and drinking a glass of water, or whatever is available there, whereas if you can lie really well then get dynamite results, 35 percent report increased intellectual understanding, awareness, insight, 40 percent report more tole.. | lies untruths | Donald Barthelme | |
| f365cb4 | INTERVIEWER Why don't you write tragedy? BARTHELME I'm fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions, which preclude tragedy, which require a pure line. It's a habit of mind, a perversity. Tom Hess used to tell a story, maybe from Lewis Carroll, I don't remember, about an enraged mob storming the palace shouting "More taxes! Less bread!" As soon as I hear a proposition I immediately consider its opposite. A double-minded man--makes for mixtures. .. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 77c65d7 | The horsewife! The very basebone of the American plethora! The horsewife! Without whom the entire structure of civilian life would crumble! Without the horsewife, the whole raison d'etre of our existences would be reduced, in a twinkling, to that brute level of brutality for which we so rightly reproach the filthy animals. Were it not for her enormous purchasing power and the heedless gaiety with which it is exercised, we would still be goi.. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 8951235 | The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 3173682 | Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 7762253 | You may not be interested in absurdity," she said firmly, "but absurdity is interested in you." | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 6e9a405 | A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey. | travel | Lynne Rae Perkins | |
| a68bdda | Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had nothing to do with the kind of person he might actually be. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| fc73bc0 | Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life. | smiling | Lynne Rae Perkins | |
| 0c7599b | Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned. | wisdom blue jordan kingsley mimi schuyler σοφία venator force | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 64cb349 | But for Jack, the sight of Schuyler Van Alen had only served to ignite a feeling he had been repressing for months. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 9a54eb3 | Mimi knew now what she had to do. To save their bond, to save themselves. She had to destroy Schuyler Van Alen. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| c3767eb | Once the bond was sealed, it could not be broken for this cycle. Schuyler would become nothing more than a distant memory. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| ec0401f | put it bluntly, Prince Ben, this blows," said Genie, who" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| f6219d9 | He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around her neck. Her letters were full of love and anticipation, matching his for enthusiasm and tenderness. He was the luckiest man in the world. | historical-romance | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 8ec55df | Outside, the crescent moon was high in the sky, shining in its sliver glory. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 2d8fd88 | I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up"- then Alex looked into Eliza's shining eyes and added a twist of his own-"and I shall serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop the gifts that God has given you." | historical-romance | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 87d8f57 | She made her choice. She loved Oliver. Jack was not hers to love, and never had been. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 2d8f240 | It was the same way he looked that at her that night. When he asked her to stay. She gave him the same answer she had back then. "No." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 75be104 | As much as she still loved Jack, and as much as it would make her miserable forever to leave him again, there was Oliver to consider. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 12f207c | Leave him." Mimi held Kingsley's gaze. "I can't..." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 47adfc9 | Mimi collapsed to the ground, as if her heart had imploded in her chest. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| cda2750 | This was the nightmare that had plagued her for months...the same despair that washed over her now. She was losing him. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 8f5517c | Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 8133a2a | And just like magic, the Isle of the Lost began to form before their eyes, including the hidden and forbidden zones. The Forbidden Fortress appeared, a menacing-looking castle of spiky walls and twisty towers, located on the edge of the island. Right in the middle of Nowhere. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| ea25fe1 | Lucifer, the most beautiful angel of all time,became so enamored with his own beauty and power that he came to believe his light was greater than the Almighty... | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 4affe36 | I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have." -Schuyler" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| c8fed55 | It hurt because he knew she loved him; she had told him as much. It just-just not enough... | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 8c5a434 | So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| e16d483 | This ring is a symbol of my faithfulness, it binds you to me, and my love shall hold you always. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| c7eb74d | This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now yours. | Melissa de la Cruz |