#next

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #authorities #been #beijing #book

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#been #build #built #computer #customers

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #ceased #certainly #computer #computer industry

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. ↗

— Billy Joel

#ban #banned #did #die #good

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next. ↗

— David Johansen

#next #see #them #things #try

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners. ↗

— Daymond John

#because #better #better mousetrap #fast #get

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you. ↗

— Elton John

#comes #get #going #guarantee #hiv

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists. ↗

— Lara St. John

#art #artists #because #choose #decades

Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

#always #better #days #life #next

My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#created #current #current administration #dogs #jobs