“I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.” PeopleIfsHappensWorryNewsDefinitions Author:Bruce Schneier
“The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.” MediocritySignaturesInconsistency Author:James C. Collins
“Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.” GrowsSpringAbuseSakeMotiveSecrecy Author:Christopher Dodd
“Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.” NeedsEconomyPositionBuilderTraders Author:Richard Florida
“Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.” WantHumansArtHuman BeingsComputerProgramming Author:Donald Knuth
“When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.” PhilosophyToolsManagementEmbedded Author:Clay Shirky
“Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.” WellsLostCitiesPovertyGenerationsHillsParisParksTemporarySan FranciscoRevoltResentAtticsDocksBay AreaLost Generation Author:John Steinbeck
“The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.” StatesPoliticalChallengesUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomicIntellectualClimateExtremesSan FranciscoBay AreaGeniality Author:James A. Michener
“Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.” WorldStatesDreamNamesUnitedCitiesVisionUnited StatesRemarkableSan FranciscoBay Area Author:Georges Pompidou