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“Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.”
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“Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.”
Source : "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011. 
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“Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa.... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly.”
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“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”
Source : "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". Book by Jared Diamond, 2005.
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“I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.”
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“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
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“I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.”
Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
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“I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won”
