"Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'"

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Source : "Ron Conway: S.F. mover and shaker" by Heather Knight, www.sfgate.com. August 27, 2012.

Ron Conway

#Knitting Quotes #People Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes

“If you've got it, flaunt it.”
“I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?”
“What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.”
“I've been fascinated with gargoyles since I was a kid. I took a high school trip to Europe, the 8 countries in 5 weeks kind of trip. Even then I collected postcards of gargoyles. Then I sort of forgot about it. You flash-forward a few years and I'm at Disney, we're looking for an idea to base a show on. I was running series development at the time at Disney TV Animation. And we came up with the Gargoyles comedy series. Which didn't sell!”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: MovieWeb Gets Creepy With Gargoyles Creator Greg Weisman". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. January 16, 2006.
“Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.”
“Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.”
“Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.”
“Well, everybody has a bodyguard in Brazil.”

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