"Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.”

Source : "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.
“I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world.”
“Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to book them hotel rooms. When you work with your friends, you just call them up and they come over and you record and then you go out to see a movie.”
“If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you donâ€™t imagine it, it will never happen”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 28, 2013
“It takes a smart guy to play dumb.”
“There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.”
“When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.”
“You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!”

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