"Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well."

-- Eric Ries

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“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.”

Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.”
“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust--to sing out your song for everyone to hear.”
“Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.”
“World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.”
“I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.”
“Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.”
“Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.”

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