Reid Hoffman Quotes

The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business - is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.

Reid Hoffman

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FutureBusinessTechnologyInnovation

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Jocko Willink

StrengthTalentPeopleWorldEnough

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeI AmMy LifeOthersUsefulAm

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.

Robert Loomis

LifeLoveSeaSchoolPeopleMy Life

My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.

Amanda de Cadenet

DayActionEvery DayFeminismSee

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.

Stephen Sondheim

NatureMathematicsWantTakeJust

There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.

Tracy Hickman

FatherEnoughLooksBallSuitFilm

There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravagance. But for all his prominence, Jay-Z hasn't written a lot of crossover hits.

Michael Paterniti

CoolStreetHustlerIndifferenceCEO

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

MeSickSheNoteSomebodyHad

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

Christopher Hitchens

MyselfConsiderCredulous

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Christopher Alexander

GreatEnvironmentalProblemsDesign

If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.

Chris Sacca

ScienceHateFakeInternetEmployees

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Bob Uecker

WinterForwardYearLookThreeWay

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