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“The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone. It ended because we invented something better.”
― Steve Case, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

“The Rise of the Rest means just what it says: a way to lift the prospects of the rest of the nation—those who live and work outside the coastal tech centers in California, New York, and Massachusetts. Currently, 75 percent of venture capital for startups flows to those three states, with the rest of the country left to fight it out for the remaining 25 percent.”
― Steve Case, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream

“Third Wave technology will also change how we measure success in the classroom. What good is an annual standardized test, after all, once teachers and parents can get detailed reports with a wide range of metrics, comparing their students on a regular basis to others in their class or school or state? In this way, big data on individual students will do for education what standardized testing never quite could: bring quantitative precision to a qualitative learning process.”
― Steve Case, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

“Acceptance isn’t forgetting, and it isn’t ignoring that that person was really fucking special to you. It’s simply being present in your current reality. And understanding that it’s totally okay to move on.”
― Steve Case, Hardcore Grief Recovery: An Honest Guide to Getting through Grief without the Condolences, Sympathy, and Other BS

“The entrepreneurs of this era are going to challenge the biggest industries in the world, and those that most affect our daily lives.”
― Steve Case, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future