James David

“Tracy smiled. “Do you remember the story?” “Kimi? It was my story.” “What do you remember?” “A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.” “How well did you know her?” “Everyone knew Kimi. She was a track star. In the fall she ran cross-country, and in the spring she ran the high hurdles and the one hundred—back then it was still called the hundred-yard dash. She finished second in the state her junior year and was the odds-on favorite to win both races senior year.”
― Robert Dugoni, In the Clearing

“The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost,” Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that the tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it’s not that simple. At the company he founded after being ousted from Apple, Jobs was able to indulge all of his instincts, both good and bad. He was unbound. The result was a series of spectacular products that were dazzling market flops. This was the true learning experience. What prepared him for the great success he would have in Act III was not his ouster from his Act I at Apple but his brilliant failures in Act II. The first instinct that he indulged was his passion for design. The name he chose for his new company was rather straightforward: Next.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“eyes as she spoke. She sort of did it all the time, actually, making you unable to figure out when she was being sincere or sarcastic.             Alyx continued, “Any company would love to”
― Marian Tee, Chased

“eyes were rimmed with red and framed by dark circles. He looked like a man at the gallows with a noose around his neck, waiting for the floor to drop away beneath his feet. The man leaned forward and placed his palms on the digital tabletop, where a haphazard scattering of apps”
― Joseph John, The Eighth Day