“He slept fitfully that night, and between his restless moments he dreamed about seaweed—great curtains of seaweed undulating with the motion of the waves. Then it became a head of green hair swirling in the dirty brown water.” Murder MysteryWho Done ItMavens1980s BohemiansArtist CommuneMævansThalassophobiaWater NixieWhodunits Book:The Cat Who Saw Red Source: The Cat Who Saw Red
“The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.” TryingLooksKindFashionInspireBibleRedBoundsLibraryMagazinesCollectionsEditorsTributeVogueDianaHarperBazaarsMavensVogue Magazine Author:Anna Sui
“Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics, which means that if you are interested in starting a word-of-mouth epidemic , your resources ought to be solely concentrated on these three groups. No one else matters.” IfsMeanMatterLawThreeGroupsKeysOughtMouthsResourcesAreasResponsibleStartingSalesmanEpidemicsConcentratingWord Of MouthConnectorsMavens Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.” LanguagePeevesMavens Author:Steven Pinker
“I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.” KnowsWorldInspirationalThis WorldHip HopRapMonstersGave UpMavens Author:Kanye West
“Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make nice - even in the face of clear and repeated rejection from the other side - is unparalleled. For Obama and his team, diplomacy with rogue regimes is an end in itself, and any deal, however one-sided, is a win, especially one that the White House communications mavens think that friendly media will call a 'breakthrough' or 'historic.'” ThinkingFirstsEndsFacesCoursesHouseWinningSidesPresidentWhiteDealsEnemyClearNiceTeamMediaCommunicationDeterminationRejectionFriendlyWhite HouseRegimesDiplomacyHistoricBreakthroughReconciliationAdversariesNotableRoguesOne SidedMavens Author:Stephen F. Hayes
“The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural maven like Falwell or Limbaugh who speaks to their manipulable pathos. The gulf between such individuals' education or intellectual competence or information and the actual issues of our times is simply too great. They were bred to be culture-media for false consciousness, junkies who crawl on their bellies across broken glass for another hit of "clarifying wisdom" from some ideological Pope.” PhilosophyPoliticalCultureIndividualSpeakConsciousnessIssuesEconomicModernMediaInformationBrokenIntellectualRelationGlassesOur TimeComplexityPopeBellyCompetenceModern LifeIdeologicalJunkiePathosBroken GlassClarifyingMavens Author:Kenny Smith
“I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.” LittlesEndsSchoolOrderBitsClassLittle BitEconomicsFinanceFascinatedSantaGarageStanfordClaraAtariMavens Author:Nolan Bushnell