Sjodin Communications Quotes & Sayings

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. — Pierre Omidyar

Regulation has gone astray ... Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical. — Edward Kennedy

Oh, China. How I have missed you.'
'And I have missed you, Eliza. But don't worry, next time my aim will be better. — Derek Landy

They used to tell me if you're depressed anyway, why not be depressed and take a walk instead of being depressed and staying in bed? If it makes no difference, why not get up and go out? — Rebecca Rogers Maher

Following a process is being programmed, living is doing it in other way. — Abdul Mueed

Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl. — Chris Milk

People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologists call "secondary organizations," places where people can get together, plan, talk and develop ideas. You don't do it alone. — Noam Chomsky

Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them. — Marty Rubin

I should have acted sooner. Saved him. It was in my power." Her throat closed painfully. Then Crash did something unexpected. He sat down on the bed, his hand landing close to her face, gazing down at her intently. For reasons unknown, Sora felt her breath catch, her chest constrict peculiarly. — T.L. Shreffler

Some people call it self-confidence, I call it ambivalence to failure. — L.M. Long

Become a vessel for the divine. — Amy Ippoliti

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. — Neal Stephenson

Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness. — John Locke

Christ's teaching, which came to be known to men, not by means of violence and the sword," they say, "but by means of non-resistance to evil, gentleness, meekness, and peaceableness, can only be diffused through the world by the example of peace, harmony, and love among its followers. — Leo Tolstoy

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. — John Maynard Keynes