"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

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Source : Comment on the Profumo affair, July 1963, in Anthony Sampson 'Macmillan' (1967) p. 243

Harold MacMillan

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“Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'”

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“ll industries have been disrupted and disruption tends to generate gatherings for people to share information. I don't think media are unusual here. Add to that the discovery, or perhaps expansion of the awareness, that events can generate revenue. So now we have companies whose business model is heavily based on events, whether it is Re/code or South by Southwest or many others. Those kinds of gatherings were once more institutionally oriented inside trade associations. Now they have been expanded out.”
“A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.”
“New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.”
“One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.”
“I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.”
“As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.”
“I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.”

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