"Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House."

-- Daniel Suarez

#Your Side Quotes #House Quotes #Needs Quotes

“We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
“That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.”
“Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.”
“The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.”

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“If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.”
“In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.”
“The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.”
“For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek”

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