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Jonathan Ive

"Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital corporations by experiencing a non-vital corporation. You would have thought that, when what stands between you and bankruptcy is some money, your focus would be on making some money, but that was not [Steve Jobsâ€™] preoccupation. His observation was that the products werenâ€™t good enough and his resolve was, we need to make better products. That stood in stark contrast to the previous attempts to turn the company around."

-- Jonathan Ive

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“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.”
“They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other thingsâ€”like talkingâ€”everything got so complicated.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.499, Delacorte Press
“They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.”

Source : "Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange" compiled by David Barber, 1987.
“Significance is sweet ...”
“Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.”
“I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.”
“I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will it be us or our kids or our grandkids to live through this? We don't want it to happen, we don't want to be the ones with the poisoned water, but at the same time, I think there is this curiosity, like, Am I one of the "lucky" ones who gets to be here at the end? That's the tension I'm interested in.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.”

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