harper Reed

“ПOΛHAЯПYOTOTA—”
― Alan Furst, Night Soldiers

“the English writer G. K. Chesterton wondered what the big boats foretold of a nation’s fabric. “The poor man really has a stake in the country,” he wrote. “The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.”
― Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

“No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

“The first is that if you haven’t manufactured the new thing in substantial quantities, you have not innovated; the second is that if you haven’t found a market to sell the product, you have not innovated.”
― Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation