“My genius?” she echoed with a sudden sense of weariness. “Is there any final test of genius but success? And I certainly haven’t succeeded”.
Quotes
Greek Canadian restauranteur Costas Spiliadis on why he seeks perfection
His fish are perfect. His vegetables are perfect. Everything is as perfect as mania can make it. When I asked him why he insists
riots over Shakespeare
“On the evening of May 10, 1849, a mob of more than 10,000 New Yorkers – some of them brandishing pistols and hurling rocks
Lou Barnes, mortgage broker and syndicated columnist on mortage hedge fund meltdowns
In the last week, the mortgage market has been glued to the demise of two Bear Stearns mortgage investment “hedge” funds. Their rise and
Tina Brown on Anna Nichole Smith
Anna Nichole Smith was massively interesting. That story represented everything about America: sex, money, and litigation. The newsmagazines were too lofty to put her
What Makes Success?
Factual review of politicians and business leaders who have been successful and find what are common factors in terms of education, work experience, etc.
Death of a Salesman – appearance
Willy Loman (to his son Biff): Bernard can get the best marks in school, y’understand, but when you get out in the business world,
What You can Do without hurting yourself
how much time you can lay in sun how much wine you can drink how many cigars you can smoke prostitutes
conditions to make peer production work Wikinomics
1) The object of production is information or culture, which keeps the cost of participation low for contributors 2) tasks can be chunked out
why people work for free in peer production, Linux quote
People participate in peer production communities (for free – JG) for a wide range of intrinsic and self-interested reasons. Fo example, when we asked