"We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model."

“Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.”

“Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.”

Source : Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

“I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.”

“We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.”

“[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.”

“Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise”

“LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.”

“Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.”

Source : Will Durant (2011). “The Reformation: The Story of Civilization”, p.198, Simon and Schuster