Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime’s view? It weighed on him.

Pulphead

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free. - Urs Hölzle

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and glowing with the tints of autumn -- a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

Tales and Sketches

I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands.

Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East

Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform ...

Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East

Like pornography, junk [food] might be tough to define but you know it when you see it.

VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good

Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the animate and inanimate and back again. For this reason it is always incomplete, or rather is only completed by the live...

Why We Build

If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collect...

The Wisdom of Crowds

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

Woman: An Intimate Geography

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.' - Martina Navratilova

The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.

Your Voice in My Head

And then, with the feather-green darkness pressed against the windows, he puts his filthy fingers on my scrubbed hope face and says, "If I kiss you, it's all over." And then he does. And then it is.

Your Voice in My Head

Accepting the presidency, Barack introduces "my best friend of sixteen years, the love of my life, Michelle Obama" and I think I will pass out. That, right there, is love in action.

Your Voice in My Head

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through,’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of hi...

Barton Gellman

You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - qu...

Carl Honore