"Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons."

-- Frank Zappa

#Ignorance Quotes #Evil Quotes #Greed Quotes

“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.”
“I'm not even a household name in my own household”

Source : "Sacrificial lamb gets a roasting" by John Rawling, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2001.
“The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that arenâ€™t mine, that wonâ€™t ever be mine. Itâ€™s all Iâ€™ve ever known. I wish it wasnâ€™t.”
“For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.”

Source : Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.134, Penguin
“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.”
“Painting is the subject of painting.”
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
“The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.”

Source : "Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter". Book by Alex Pentland, January 30, 2014.

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