As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was ‘Asterix and Obelix’ and ‘Tin Tin’ comic books, or ‘Lord of the Rings,’ or Frank Herbert’s sci-fi. Or ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ Or ‘Charlotte’s Web.’ Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read ‘War and Peace.’ Alexander Chee Read Quote
Look, we have long known that birds and pigs are mortal enemies. That’s just the way of the world. Birds hate pigs. Paul F. Tompkins Read Quote
Advanced nation-states are now using cyber power for unrestricted economic warfare and national security-motivated espionage, as well as a force multiplier and signaling instrument in conflicts. Dmitri Alperovitch Read Quote
The restructuring theme can be of various kinds. Some amount of debt gets serviced out of cash flows, some gets back-ended and resolved with sale of non-core assets of the company, and some debt gets converted into equity which might today look like a haircut. Chanda Kochhar Read Quote
I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we’re trying to do, what we’re trying to accomplish and what we’re trying to leave. Deval Patrick Read Quote
The scale of impact that people aspire to create, based out of the Bay Area, is truly incredible. Ritesh Agarwal Read Quote
The main thing I don’t like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. Jarvis Cocker Read Quote
