“Anyone with guts, vision, and political savvy should be able to set up an entrepreneurial outpost in an established business.”
—Guy Kawasaki
March 2008
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“Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.”
—Nathan Roseberg
“Fortune favors the bold.”
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“I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.”
—Ludwig van Beethoven
“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”
—Guy Kawasaki
“If you believe in something, do it. And do it with conviction. And if you screw up, learn from it, admit your mistakes and failures, and move forward in a more thoughtful way.”
—San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (The Advocate)
“A certain type of forcefulness and perseverance is sometimes helpful when tackling large, intractable problems.”
—Roderick Kramer (Standford), Harvard Business Review
“Sometimes, evil works.”
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“Apple creates must-have products the old-fashioned way: by locking the doors and sweating and bleeding until something emerges perfectly formed.”
—Leander Kahney, Wired Magazine
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
—Apple ad (circa 1977)
“It’s not the technology that makes people antisocial, it’s culture.”
—Jason Kottke, New York
“The iPod is no longer just an instrument or a tool, but a part of myself. It’s a body extension. It’s part of my memory, and if I lose this stuff, I lose part of my identity.”
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“The iPod isn’t just an MP3 player. It’s an extension of the memory: storing the soundtrack of a lifetime, as well as names, addresses, calendars, and notes.”
—Markus Giesler
“iPod Therefore iAm.”
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“The iPod transforms listeners into cyborg consumers and it plugs them into hybrid entertainment matrix where they can achieve technotranscendence.”
—Markus Giesler, Assistant Professor of Marketing, York University (Toronto, Canada)
“The iPod isn’t simply an updated Walkman. It’s an entirely new beast: a revolutionary device that transforms listeners to cyborgs.”
—Markus Giesler
“Playlistism is discrimination based not on race, sex or religion, but on someone’s terrible taste in music, as revealed by their iTunes music library.”
—Stephen Aubrey, Wesleyan Argus (Wesleyan University)
“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
—Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
