In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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Monthly Archives: July 2024
Amazon was founded on this day in 1994
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon on this day – July 5, 1994 – in Bellevue, Washington.
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Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
~ Walter Kirn
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Campus Life at the
University of Tampa
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I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
~ George C. Marshall
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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“Moore’s Law for everything” should be the rallying cry of a generation whose members can’t afford what they want. It sounds utopian, but it’s something technology can deliver (and in some cases already has).
~ Sam Altman
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Campus Life at the
University of Arkansas
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Seek out reality, leave things that seem.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.
~ John le Carré
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