"I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't."

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Source : "For Stripe Cofounders, Y Combinator Supplies Far More Than Mentoring". Interview with Austin Carr, www.fastcompany.com. August 22, 2012.

Patrick Collison

#Differences Quotes #Quality Quotes #Made Quotes

“Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.”
“You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.”
“The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'”
“The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.”
“The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.”
“By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.5, Albert Einstein Institution
“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.”

Source : "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2005.
“She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.”

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