Rikesh

“Kate looked at her in warning, but didn’t say anything. Jasmine ignored the whole issue. “Guys, I need to get ready. Go away.” “I know,” Jasmine”
― K.F. Breene, Lost and Found

“Amazon also noted that it now has 132,600 employees, up 37 percent in the last year. That’s larger than Microsoft, which had 128,000 employees as of June 30 and before its plans to lay off 18,000 workers.”
― Anonymous

“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011”
― Russell Grandinetti

“When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. —Jeff Bezos, commencement speech at Princeton University, May 30, 2010”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon