"I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics."

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Ron Conway

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“The TV show I do ['Dr Quinn'] is the day job that enables me to work with this theater [Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble]. That's all I live for. That's what I care about. There's no dough in it. Nothing to do but lose money. But it's all from the heart, and that's why it's so much fun.”
“Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.”

Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books
“In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.”
“Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.”
“I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.”
“No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.”
“As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.”
“I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.”

Source : "Gordon Parks, Lagandary Photographer & Filmmaker Dies At 93". Jet magazine, Volume 109, No. 12, March 27, 2006.

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