"All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles."

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Fred Wilson

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“We're defining the competitive landscape... of who can provide the most supportive services that make life easier, keep track of things, that complement human memory in a way that helps us get things done,”
“He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.”

Source : William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”
“I am so pro-swine flu it's ridiculous.”
“In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit.”

Source : Deborah Blum (2011). “The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York”, p.118, Penguin
“Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”
“I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.”

Source : "Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke'". Interview With Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.
“So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.”
“and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”

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