"Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot."

-- Keith Rabois

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“There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.”
“Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.”
“An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.”
“Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe"Â chera d'e"Â tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.”
“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.”

Source : Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.234
“The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.”
“If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.”

Source : "Not just a chick thing". Interview with Simon Braund, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.
“The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government's assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors' needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.”

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