December 2007
38 posts
“In basketball you have to shoot 50%. If you make an extra 10 shots per hundred,...”
– Mark Cuban (via David)
“[It’s a Wonderful Life’s] themes are fundamental to the American...”
– Gary North
“The worst thing you can do in New York is fall in love with a neighborhood”
– Superfine owner Cara Lee Sparry quoted in NYT
My favorite book →
Think Secret shut down for committing an act of... →
“One of the keys to this kind of online writing is the strategic mystery...”
– David Mazella in Satire and the fake first-person voice
“I thought all blogs were fake.”
– An Internet commenter in reaction to hearing about our Fake Gordon Ramsay blog
“The collision of intelligence and ambition with opportunity is unbeatable....”
– Sequoia Capital
“There’s always been too much money in venture capital.”
– Tom Perkins in my interview on Venture Voice
“News submission is 100% free.”
– StartupNews.org’s alternative to saying “we won’t pay for content”
Having an infantile sense of humor is its own... →
— Dick Costolo
“I think New York is the capital of the world, and I don’t know how much longer...”
– Barry Diller quoted in the New York Observer
“It’s not that we imagine that we would be happier if we kept a diary; we imagine...”
– Louis Menand in The New Yorker
“I don’t know Rupert Murdoch, he is a combative 76-year-old newspaper guy...”
– Bill Keller
“He was my childhood hero, and I killed him. What does that mean? What does that...”
– Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore on writing the script that killed Captain Kirk in Star Trek
“We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it.”
– Mark Zuckerberg admirably owning up to a mistake
“The more difficult the decision, the less it matters what you choose.”
– Gene Kleiner