Over the course of the next 18 months, the young inventors gave demonstrations of Google to nearly every search company in the Valley, from
Quotes
Google early days
Brin\’s advisor at Standford to Brin: \”Look, if this Google thing pans out, great. If not, you can return to graduate school and finish
Giorgio Armani on exercise
A well maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well maintained physique its
World wealth by assets 2011
top 50% – assets over $4200\r\ntop 25% – assets over 10,000\r\ntop 10% – assets over 82,000\r\ntop 1% – $712,000
Chinese hotel chain owner Wu Hai\’s open letter to China\’s premeir
After our left cheek has been slapped by the big brothers, we sons of bithes can only turn our right cheek for another slap.
Steve Erickson on the Beach Boy\’s Brian Wilson
OLympic gold medals rankings
Total gold medals – 1/US 2/China 3/UK\r\nadjusted by population – 1/Grenada/2Bahamas 3/Jamaica\r\nadjusted by GDP – Grenada/North Korea\r\n\r\nGrenada only has one gold, but a population
slowdown in beating world records
Scott Neeson, who left the presidency of Sony Pictures to found a nonprofit helping very poor children in Cambodia
You sort of come face to face with your own values at some point, where you can walk away or do something about it.
China stocks
, Vanguard research has shown that economic growth is, at best, weakly related to long-term equity market returns