Adam Lashinsky Quotes

Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.

Adam Lashinsky

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I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was like the first time I saw Janis Joplin.

Jerry Heller

TimeMeWorldLovedFirst TimeSaw

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

John Katzman

EducationTechnologyGreatService

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

Robert Herjavec

BuildNeverCompanyMillionHappened

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Anna Quindlen

LifeChangeBeachDarknessStepMe

I like getting requests from audience members.

Steve Forbert

AudienceLikeGettingMembers

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brothers.

Roger Stone

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We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Miguel de Icaza

Too MuchNiceBuildWayEmpower

I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

Dionne Warwick

I AmSupportMeCareerTrueWill

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Dee Dee Myers

GoodGovernmentGenerationInnocence

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Christopher Hitchens

WomenChildrenAnimalYouRiseSay

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

Chris O'Dowd

LivePowerGreatGoForeverOff

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

Alison Brie

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