David

“we can’t read our own label from inside the jar.”
― David C. Baker, The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth

“The Limerick Leader reported that ‘To-day there’s many an O’Grady from Clare, who regard Muhammad Ali as one of their own.”
― Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

“Visiting his neighbours’ apartments, he would find himself physically repelled by the contours of an award-winning coffee-pot, by the well-modulated colour schemes, by the good taste and intelligence that, Midas-like, had transformed everything in these apartments into an ideal marriage of function and design. In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

“the knowledge underlying civilization is so widespread today that complete annihilation would be more probable than a long period of darkness followed by recovery.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future