“I’m about to panic when I remember the rabbit I startled earlier today. It has to drink, too. I just have to find out where.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
“All of this changed in 1993, when Marc Andreessen, a twenty-two-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, coauthored Mosaic—both the very first web browser and the Internet’s first user-friendly user interface.5 Mosaic unlocked the Internet.”
― Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
― Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
“But there's one critical difference between old-fashioned word of mouth and the digital version. "Talking over the hedge is one-to-one," says Prof. Dave Reibstein, the William Stewart Woodside Professor at The Wharton School. "Digital word of mouth is one-to-millions. If you have a good experience, it's shared and re-shared with millions. You post it and suddenly, it's flying.”
― Winning the Zero Moment of Truth - ZMOT
― Winning the Zero Moment of Truth - ZMOT
“On a long sea voyage the rowers of Carib merchant canoes kept a small brazier of coals going amidships. Every 30 minutes or so, a small wad of tobacco leaves was placed on the brazier and, as the smoke began to rise, the rowers would put a forked nose pipe made from the breastbone of a seabird into the fumes and draw them in. After holding the smoke for awhile, a rower would exhale powerfully with a shout like high school players breaking a football huddle and then go back to the awesome task of single-handedly rowing a fully loaded commercial canoe over the open seas.”
― The Cultivators Handbook of Natural Tobacco
― The Cultivators Handbook of Natural Tobacco
“Consequently they who assert that all is well have said a foolish thing, they should have said all is for the best.”
― Candide
― Candide
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