"In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging."

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Source : Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.131, Penguin

Paul Allen

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“From one match to the next, I kept on winning.”
“Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.”
“The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”
“Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.”
“The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.”
“From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.”
“In CancÃºn, I felt like I had walked into an American teen movie.”
“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when itâ€™s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”

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