#pre

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#coming #feeling #flat #good #good sign

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#always #anybody #based #billion #internet

If I don’t wear anything, I’d probably make the food go off, and the children run away screaming. What with all the scars and all. I’m not what one could call particularly pretty.” Unlike you, Vadim, and your goddamned perfection, except for a word cut in blood and flesh. Vadim shook his head, already retreating towards the open door. “'Pretty' is different,” he murmured. “'Pretty' has no scars. You are... Jaw muscles tensed again. “Like the morning sky in Afghanistan. Not ‘pretty’. Word’s ‘breathtaking’. ↗

— Aleksandr Voinov

#breathtaking #dan #love #pretty #scars

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#bit #each #even #going #i

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.' ↗

— Julie Andrews

#child #comprehensible #first #home #i

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#golfer #lose #never #prepared #ultimatum

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#i #money #more #older #prepared

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ↗