"I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it."

-- Andy Grove

#Thinking Quotes #Technology Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.”

Source : R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (2008). “He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World”, p.75, Moody Publishers
“There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.”
“Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It even gives me great physical energy.”
“We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.”
“Where another person sees problems, a leader sees possibilities. ... Leaders must have the courage to follow their vision, to believe in the invisible, to work for something that's still only a possibility, while others often wring their hands in despair.”
“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...”

Source : "Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature". Book by Terence McKenna, 1987.
“In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end.”

Source : "Raf Simons and the Ghost of Dior". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2015.
“When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.”

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