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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 10122fa | Remember, he was a fanatic, and there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic. | Agatha Christie | ||
| fa126b9 | Never mind. I knew -- that was the great thing. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 7c76de6 | gave when she asked him that question. "Bush's iPod is heavy on traditional country singers," she reported. "He has selections by Van Morrison, whose 'Brown Eyed Girl' is a Bush favorite, and by John Fogerty, most predictably 'Centerfield.'" She got a Rolling Stone editor, Joe Levy, to analyze the selection, and he commented, "One thing that's interesting is that the president likes artists who don't" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 309244d | Embrace uncertainty," the ads read." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ace89e8 | I was way too shy ever to be a business leader like Steve. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2561b01 | Ferrentino into separate classes. The teacher for the advanced class was a spunky woman named Imogene Hill, known as "Teddy," and she became, Jobs said, "one of the saints of my life." After watching" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4966399 | wanted instead to take a walk so that we could | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a3dd937 | Where are the Hittites? Why does no one find it remarkable that in most world cities today there are Jews but not one single Hittite, even though the Hittites had a great flourishing civilization while the Jews nearby were a weak and obscure people? When one meets a Jew in New York or New Orleans or Paris or Melbourne, it is remarkable that no one considers the event remarkable. What are they doing here? But it is even more remarkble to won.. | Walker Percy | ||
| aa968cf | A variant of the amnesic-plot device is the inadvertent return of the amnesiac to home territory, where he is welcomed by a lovely woman, unknown to him, who is evidently his wife. The crucial scene is his being led off to bed. A non-amnesic equivalent is a twin or look-alike who is mistaken for someone else--by a beautiful woman. Invariably she finds him not merely oddly different but somehow better, more attractive, than the original. Aft.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 7be450a | you have too good a mind to throw away. I don't quite know what we're doing on this insignificant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confided in me. Yet one thing I believe and I believe it with every fiber of my being. A man must live by his lights and do what little he can and do it as best he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fi.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 78f9c00 | For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos. | Walker Percy | ||
| 9e107cb | and extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bc97036 | We shake hands and part good comrades. But I have to get out of here, good fellows or no good fellows. Too much fellow feeling makes me nervous, to tell the truth. | Walker Percy | ||
| 39c8cea | It is difficult for gods to walk the earth without taking the forms of beasts. | Walker Percy | ||
| 72bbc73 | Am I, in my search, a hundred miles ahead of my fellow Americans or a hundred miles behind them? That is to say: Have 98% of Americans already found what I seek or are they so sunk in everydayness that not even the possibility of a search has occurred to them? | Walker Percy | ||
| 2027cd5 | Catastrophe as Catalyst in the Ontology of Joy, or Hurricane Parties on the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Camille: An In-depth Study of Eleven Victims Who Elected to Stay Compared with Eleven Random Control Subjects Who Elected to Leave"?" | Walker Percy | ||
| 825cd77 | The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it was not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with.. | kittens movies orson-welles the-third-man | Walker Percy | |
| b8312ad | Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing," its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering enough chips on time, Jobs stormed into a meeting and started shouting that they were "fucking dickless assholes." The company ended up getting the chips to Apple on time, and its executives made jackets that boasted on the back, "Team FDA." | steve-jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| 5110a91 | At the end of an age, the denizens of the age still profess to believe that they can understand themselves by the theory of the age, yet they behave as if they did not believe it. The surest sign that an age is coming to an end is the paradoxical movement of the most sensitive souls of the age, the artists and writers first, then the youth, in a direction exactly opposite to the direction laid down by the theory of the age. | Walker Percy | ||
| 13c1e7f | The salvation of art derives in the best of modern times from a celebration of the triumph of the autonomous self--as in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony--and in the worst of times from naming the unspeakable: the strange and feckless movements of the self trying to escape itself. Exhilaration comes from naming the unnameable and hearing it named. If Kafka's Metamorphosis is presently a more accurate account of the self than Beethoven's Ninth Sym.. | Walker Percy | ||
| fab0b04 | Another evidence of my Jewishness: the other day a sociologist reported that a significantly large percentage of solitary moviegoers are Jews. | Walker Percy | ||
| 55f542c | By the very cogent anthropology of Judeo-Christianity, whether or not one agreed with it, human existence was by no means to be understood as the transaction of a higher organism satisfying this or that need from its environment, by being "creative" or enjoying "meaningful relationships," but as the journey of a wayfarer along life's way. The" | Walker Percy | ||
| f37981a | However this future evolves, we will have to answer a pressing question: How will writers (or anyone else who creates content that can be digitized, from movies to music to apps to journalism) make a living in an era in which digital content can be freely replicated? That is now my greatest worry as I contemplate the so-called writing life that I hope to continue--and that I hope my daughter and all future generations will continue. For thr.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b577275 | August 2001, when the stock price was just under $18. The problem was that he worried about his image, especially after the Fortune article. He did not want | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4f2c19a | Lower Manhattan | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b91ca70 | megagrants--granting huge bundles of options to buy Apple stock at a preset price--that were not subject to the usual good compensation practices of board committee reviews and performance criteria. When he dropped the "interim" in his title and officially became CEO, he was" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3429cd4 | August 2001, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0b9fd76 | was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1a48026 | launched his "Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e1c6cf8 | I had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time's editors and extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him with a story that was too revealing. But talking to him afterward, I found myself rather captivated, as so many others have been over the years, by his engaging intensity. We stayed in touch, even after he was ousted from Apple. When he had somet.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0692461 | toward the pushy kid who had talked his way in by calling the CEO. "I" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f29b24c | At the official signing of the parchment copy on August 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous flourish. "There must be no pulling different ways," he declared. "We must all hang together." According to the early American historian Jared Sparks, Franklin replied, "Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 18e342b | Wentworth arrived in Paris in mid-December, just as the Americans were meeting with Vergennes, and sent a missive worthy of a British spy: a gentleman who wished to meet him, it said, could be found the next morning in a coach at a specified place on the road to Passy, or later at an exhibition in the Luxembourg Gallery, or at the public baths on the Seine, where Deane would find a note giving the room number to use. Deane sent a reply wort.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e80c12d | By the summer of 1996 Amelio realized that he had a serious problem. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d4bd539 | CLARA HAGOPIAN JOBS. Hija de unos inmigrantes armenios. Se caso con Paul Jobs en 1946 y juntos adoptaron a Steve | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3fb4202 | Long live impudence! It is my guardian angel in this world." That" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 01374c7 | More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he was able to infuse into its DNA the design sensibilities, perfectionism, and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at t.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d6fea4c | Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 360dff8 | The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the best people working on the original Mac were poets and musicians on the side. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1c02dd0 | I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 205169e | I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8b85c7f | Una de las premisas basicas de la innovacion es mantenerse centrado. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2f29ccb | better negotiating position in a year, after Pixar finished Finding Nemo. "Yesterday we saw for the second time the new Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, that comes out next May," he wrote. "This will be a reality check for those guys. It's okay," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f9c8774 | That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children's eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a long time, then at Laurene, and finally gazed past them into the distance. "Oh wow," he said. "Oh wow. Oh wow." Those were his final words before he drifted into unconsciousness sometime around two that afternoon." | Walter Isaacson |