There were days when the teams I led were like a fun-house mirror, exaggerating my flaws. The culture of the team often reflected me, but not always in the way I would have chosen.
“But Henry wasn’t a parent, and he didn’t understand that when you were, almost nothing was more satisfying than seeing your kid sleep.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.”
― Accelerando
― Accelerando
“It’s more the way it is now than it’s ever been,” Cayce replies, a line of Dwight David Eisenhower’s that she sometimes resorts to when she has nothing whatever to offer.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
“(Americans think we Brits drink tea because we’re polite and genteel or something, whereas we really drink it because it’s a stimulant and it’s hot enough to sterilize cholera bacteria.)”
― Equoid
― Equoid
“money is a symptom of poverty, after all, and Manfred never has to pay for anything.”
― Accelerando
― Accelerando
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