"I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business"

-- Walter Isaacson

#Thinking Quotes #Parent Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.”
“I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.”
“If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they've experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.”
“Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.”
“Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.”
“Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.”
“Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.”
“If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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