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Tomas Bella
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Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, correctly viewing the new format as a threat, refused to stock it in stores, ceding the field to Netflix throughout the summer of 1998. Every factor that could have tripped Netflix up had instead fallen
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“The frantic stupidity of Wall Street’s stock order routers and algorithms was simply an extension into the computer of the willful ignorance of its salespeople.”
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“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
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“The predators may respond to the defensive reprisals of their prey as if they were the ones under attack, and experience a moralized wrath and a thirst for revenge. Thanks to the Moralization Gap, they will minimize their own first strike as necessary and trivial while magnifying the reprisal as unprovoked and devastating. Each side will count the wrongs differently—the perpetrator tallying an even number of strikes and the victim an odd number— and the difference in arithmetic can stoke a spiral of revenge,”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“I check my phone messages and email about forty-five times a day. I don’t even know what I’m expecting to get in these messages. Maybe Visa will call and say, “We just realized that we owe you money!” or I’ll get an email from a high school classmate that says, “We’ve reconsidered and we’ve decided you were cool after all.” Whatever”
― Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories
― Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories
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