"We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own."

-- Harold Bloom

“Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.”
“Whatever you do, don't do it.”
“And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design somethingÂ that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?”
“The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.”
“It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.”

Source : B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.223, Vintage
“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
“I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.”

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