Shadow Site Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection. — Kabir Bedi

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer. — William Golding

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down. — Dick Armey

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

One writes fables in periods of oppression. — Italo Calvino

Failure is an event, not a person. Think of failure as 'it' and not 'me'. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice. — Alan Ryan

As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?" — DJ Shadow

A little humility never hurts. — Ben Bernanke

My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site. — DJ Shadow