Derek Berrey

“You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative. Ideas come and go, stories stay.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Combine these three currents—a cultural acceptance of copying, a scarcity mentality, and the willingness to dive into any promising new industry—and you have the psychological foundations of China’s internet ecosystem.”
― Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

“Qihoo first created a popular new “privacy protection” software that issued dire safety warnings every time a Tencent product was opened. The warnings were often not based on any real security vulnerability, but it was an effective smear campaign against the stronger company.”
― Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

“next thing you know, the Russian tanks are rolling through the suburbs, misusing your womenfolk, and Mr Restaurant Genius is holed up in the bunker thinking about eating his gun.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly