"Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco."

-- Bill Gross

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“I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.”

Source : "Transcript: 020: Rameet Chawla: Tech Founder". "Prologue Profiles" with Dan Feld, prologueprofiles.com. September 26, 2012.
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”
“No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.”
“Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.”
“I could never have a threesome. This is not a threesome body. This is a turn off the lights body, leave your shirt on body - this is a tell nobody.”
“The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.”
“When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.”

Source : Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.261, Vintage
“Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.”

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