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“Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.”

World Way Looks Water Levels Ocean Rivers Amazon Mississippi

Book:All Rivers Flow to the Sea

Source: All Rivers Flow to the Sea

“Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.”

Children Earth Felt Technology Planets Industry Internet Invention Apples Proven Posters Amazon Ipods Kindles Disruptive Shattering Reverberation

Author:Lynda Resnick

“Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably.”

“Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.”

Book Hard Watches Example Internet Chaos Amazon

Author:Bruce Schneier

“From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.”

Way Years Two Matter Wanted Company Four Ten Entrepreneur Two Years Four Years Google Amazon

Author:Mark Pincus

“Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.”

Knows Bigs Left Gone Magic Color Spring Paris Sunset Digital Amazon Softness Motion Pictures Vegetation Nile Peoria

Author:Vincent Canby

“The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality. Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place. I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, “Do you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest? Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine.”

Knows Earth Remember Passion Dark Creativity Cutting Rain Medicine Sexuality Forests Feminine Do You Know Wet Hostile Amazon Tangled Cutting Down

Book:Shaman, Healer, Sage

Source: Shaman, Healer, Sage

“There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.”

Writing Years Firsts Hours Differences Groups Week Evidence Patterns Online Print Shelves Amazon Tesco

Author:Kate Mosse

“The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.”

Water Rivers God Love Amazon Daisies

Author:F.B. Meyer

“People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.”

People World Real Asks Enemy Right Now Ask Me Digital Publishing Google Predictions Amazon

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.”

Lessons Average Score Amazon Promoters

Author:Joshua Kushner

“The fact is, when you look at the best teams—like the ones that existed at Toyota or 3M when Takeuchi or Nonaka wrote their paper, or the ones at Google or Salesforce.com or Amazon today—there isn’t this separation of roles.”

Looks Facts Today Roles Team Paper Separation Google Amazon Best Team Toyota

Author:Jeff Sutherland

“Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.”

Book Shows Internet Notes Reviews Destined Librarian Acquisition Amazon Pennsylvania Reviewers Book Review

Author:Peter Morville

“I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.”

Girl Powerful Power Warrior Girl Power Amazon

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it's going to be a museum exhibit in a couple of decades if we don't stop the deforestation.”

Ifs Facts Cry Couple Medicine Decades Museums Exhibits Amazon Majestic Deforestation Alternative Medicine Majestic Beauty

Author:Chris Kilham

“Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.”

Way Want Feels Amazon

Author:Jeff Bezos

“The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.”

Ifs Fear Rain Aspect Wounds Nurture Amazon Dio

Book:House of the Tiger King Paperback

Source: House of the Tiger King Paperback

“I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.”

Book Self Internet Cost Publishing Ongoing Surveys Amazon Booksellers

Author:Piers Anthony

“I loved when my boyfriends would call me their Amazon girl.”

Girl Call Me Amazon My Boyfriend

Author:Patti Hansen

“One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.”

Ifs Important Reason Done Easy Technology Internet Lessons Shapes Clouds Impressive Things Done Amazon Important Lessons

Author:Patrick Collison

“I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.”

Ads Site Amazon Banner Kindles

Book:The Way the World Works

Source: The Way the World Works

“When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.”

Writing Break Amazon Ebay

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.”

People Want Shows Bigs Player Fans Google Amazon Ebay Consolidation

Author:Irving Azoff

“Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.”

Race Car Designer Apples Drivers Amazon Input Race Car Race Car Driver

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.”

People Book Might Order Goes On Clicks Amazon

Author:Kelly Macdonald

“The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.”

Stills Nature Burning Smoke Amazon

Author:Larry Gelbart

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