I am not a big fan of investors asking for revenues upfront. Investors seeking numbers are being too myopic. However, I personally believe in creating a product with clarity in mind on how one thinks revenues can trickle in. Naveen Tewari Read Quote
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples’ ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn’t do. Linus Torvalds Read Quote
I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the ’80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I’d be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out. George Strait Read Quote
My first published novel, ‘American Rust,’ took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that. Philipp Meyer Read Quote
Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service – and even worse, they don’t have a strong enough belief in themselves. Jeffrey Gitomer Read Quote
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes. Cliff Curtis Read Quote
I certainly have the feeling that I’m the same person even though I’ve changed a great deal. Kenneth Koch Read Quote
When the urge to bake strikes, it strikes hard and fast. You want to get in the kitchen and start breaking eggs right away, so it can be real buzzkill to find out that the recipe you’re using calls for room-temperature butter. Claire Saffitz Read Quote
A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she’s a little disturbing like a man. Sonia Rykiel Read Quote
