Michael Conniff

“Don’t see them at their most limited level; see them where they can be the best of who they are. Like Popovich with the guy he had stand in the corner”
― Sam Smith, Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 Legendary Players

“The philosopher Jürgen Habermas was arguably the preeminent European public intellectual of the postwar era”
― Michael Steinberger, The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State

“Ben Hogan, in a phrase I always liked, talked about how he “dug his game out of the dirt.”
― John Paul Newport, The Fine Green Line: My Year of Golf Adventure on the Pro-Golf Mini-Tours

“the question that Karp wanted to explore—what turns ordinary citizens into perpetrators of genocide and accessories to mass murder? And Karp’s timing was fortuitous”
― Michael Steinberger, The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State