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“having enough for now, while not harming the future.”
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“The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that’s at least ten times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.”
Source : "HOROWITZ: How To Build A Great Culture At Your Startup" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 19, 2012.
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“I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that the two have always been together in my life, one resonating in the other, sometimes ironically, sometimes nostalgically, most often each correcting, and commenting on, the other. Each can seem like my absolutely first language, but neither is.”
Source : Edward W. Said (2013). “Out Of Place: A Memoir”, p.1931, Granta Books
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“Musicians are in-season all the time.”
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“Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.”
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“No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.”
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“It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.”
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“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”