George Packer Quotes

The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't created enough jobs, and it hasn't produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.

George Packer

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AgeDisappointmentWorldRichEnough

At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'

John Fairchild

WomenSaidFirstAlwaysBaconWear

Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.

Andrew Mason

GreatDoorWayNeverGetCustomers

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur... that's all me.

Tom DeLonge

LifeHopeReflectionI AmSpaceMe

My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

Mary Oliver

BlessingParentsCareMuchDidVery

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Martin Parr

SocietyCriticismHypocrisyThings

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

Missy Elliott

PeopleLongArtistKnowNeverWhere

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

ChangeGreatFoodSimpleWrong

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

Chelsea Handler

TodaySchoolGoDaysScaredHalf

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

Brian De Palma

TimeSchoolMy TimeMostSpent

Yes, you make mistakes in the old cases where you really think you know who the suspect is, and you probably do, and you make the mistake of relying on people.

Mark Fuhrman

MistakesMistakePeopleThinkYou

There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

James Surowiecki

SmallBetterPossibleCompanyRather

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri Bergson

IntelligenceToolsObjectsArtificial

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