“I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen,” West said years later. “There’s some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understand how things get put together. Even if you can’t under stand every little part, how infernal machines get put together.”
― The Soul of a New Machine
― The Soul of a New Machine
“Upon learning that Hall was the man who had invented the typewriter she used so often, the girl put her arms around his neck and gave him a huge hug and kiss. Forever afterward, whenever Hall told this story of how he met Helen Keller, tears would fill his eyes.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“What's that?" said the cat-- "Faith."
"To believe what I tell you about what your don't know," said the fish.”
― The Little Island
"To believe what I tell you about what your don't know," said the fish.”
― The Little Island
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