Ultracentralized Quotes & Sayings

There is neither replay of time nor life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I hate the word fine. It is descriptive of nothing. Socially acceptable filler with no true meaning. It's what you say when you are checking your feelings, unwilling or unable to let yourself be too happy or too sad. Fine. It's an emotional bookmark. A pause until you can continue the story. — Emme Burton

Good families are generally worse than any others. — Anthony Hope

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing — J.M. Coetzee

My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world. — Karl Blossfeldt

Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure. — Mikhail Naimy

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk. — Shamir

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging. — Paul Allen

If you don't own the company, it's their job, not yours. They lease it to you for a while for the value you create beyond what you cost. At the end of the lease, if you paid off the tab and have more valuable knowledge and skills than you had when you signed on, it's a good deal for everyone. If you take their money but don't get better at what you do, you got burned. — Ken Goldstein

I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. — William J. Clinton

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is. — Shane Snow