Disintermediation And Reintermediation Quotes & Sayings

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them. — William James

Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again. — Franz Kafka

In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental capitalism at work: While they abhorred the idea of being a wage slave, the young men of Silicon Valley were not trying to tear down the capitalist system. They were trying to become its new masters. — Katherine Losse

It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful. — Edmund White

The Christos-image
is most difficult to disentangle
from its art-craft junk-shop
paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
of pain-worship and death-symbol. — Hilda Doolittle

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback. — Alonzo Mourning

Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand. — Katherine Mansfield

John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read. — Saul Bellow

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.' — Claire Messud

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do. — Theodore Dreiser

Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new. — Frederick Lenz

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. — Theodore Zeldin