"Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me."

-- Anibal Cavaco Silva

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“When all think alike, then no one is thinking”
“The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.”
“Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.”

Source : "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, en.wikiquote.org.
“Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.”
“The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.”
“It is the political task of the social scientist â€” as of any liberal educator â€” continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work â€” and, as an educator, in his life as well â€” this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press
“Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.”

Source : Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books
“Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.”

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