"We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose.....It's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as other ones."

Source : "Apple COO Tim Cook: 'We Have No Interest In Being In The TV Market'" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2010.

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“Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.”

Source : "Fictional character: Willard". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.
“Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and exploited for his purposes the powerful socialist traditions of Germany. The adjectives 'socialist' and 'worker' in the official name of Hitler's party ('The Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party') had not merely propagandistic value... On one occasion, in the midst of World War II, Hitler even declared that 'basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.'”

Source : "Property and Freedom". Book by Richard Pipes, 1999.
“Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.”
“Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy.”
“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”

Source : Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I never think about anybody. I let them think about me.”
“People say "the Americans" or "the United States," as if it was a kind of bloc. It's not. There's a lot of people thinking differently from other people in the U.S. This is very interesting to me and very important.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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