"The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information."

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Tim O'Reilly

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“I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.”

Source : Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.48, Penguin
“a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.”
“What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And then, if I say yes, I read it again, only this time I take a pen and, inside the book, I say, "Okay, this is a scene. I don't need this. I'm going to try this. I'm not going to take this." And then, I use that book like a bible and each chapter heading, I write a menu of what's in that chapter, in case I ever need to reference it. And then, I start to outline and write it. I get in there and it starts to evolve, based on having re-read it again.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.”
“I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.”
“It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.”
“What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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