"Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her."

-- Junot Diaz

“I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.”
“When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.”
“When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2018). “Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, p.190, Profile Books
“How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances,”
“Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.”

Source : "Amazon's Bold Plan to Start a Last-Place TV Network" by Marcus Wohlsen, www.wired.com. March 28, 2014.
“Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.”
“Do not spit into the well, you'll get drunk”
“Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.”

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