"Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap."

“In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.”

Source : Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.131, Penguin

“The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!”

“I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.”

Source : "Serby's Sunday Q&A with … Carlos Beltran". New York Post Interview, nypost.com. June 26, 2008.

“As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.”

“I think goodreads is the best place to look for books”

“In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.”

Source : "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.

“When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.”

“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.”