29 quotes found
“Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is”
“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.”
“Discrimination is not just racial now. Its also about the kind of body parts you have.”
“Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.”
“The only things I cant offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive”
“The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive”
“We have every piece of data on 200 million people, he said, ticking off his fingers. We have their bank accounts. We know how much they make and how much they spend and where. We have their social ...”
“I have always loved being behind the camera. I love how it sets you apart in a crowd, so that you can float at the edges, pausing only occasionally to capture a moment.In its own way its easier tha...”
“here was a particular kind of energy in those early days, something I've only really found in startups. The regulars - the boring 9-to-5 people - havent invaded the world yet. All around you are pe...”
“Every New Yorker thinks theyre automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class of beggars.”
“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges of the word; and in between puffs, we would sm...”
“The world I grew up in was a brutal one. The murder rate was once seven people for every hundred thousand. The average American on minimum wage could barely afford to keep themselves alive on canne...”
“Beautiful women have a following all their own. If that sounds misogynistic, Im sorry, thats the way the world works. Homer said the Greeks went to war over a woman. I cant get a battle, but I can ...”
“The Buddha, Christ and Mohammed had to rely on God and karma and human priests for judgement; we dont. We have data. We have algorithms. We have Guidance. God is now available as an application, on...”
“I recounted my adventures, just as I recount them to you now. I told him about Bombay, which glowed in the night like a lamp. I told him about Bangalore, about the beaches of Goa, of Pune, where el...”
“This is how we progress as humans. We went from horseless carriages to self-driving, self-organizing transport in a hundred and fifty years. We went from powered flight to putting a man on the moon...”
“Sri Lanka is a beautiful little island nation parked perilously close to India; a little too hot, a little too humid, and perhaps too expensive, but to its credit are fantastic beaches, strangely m...”
“This is the Number. It is in the things we do, the people we meet, the ID cards that we carry. It's part of our identities, our credit cards, our social interactions. It takes our influences, our b...”
“Were going to tell these people that they dropped because Facebook dropped us. We're going to say the Number needs the data and it's their right to share it with us. And were going to drop their Nu...”
“Julius used to say that we stood on the shoulders of giants. To me it always seemed like we were in their shadow. It never occurred to me that we were the shadow that they projected, and that one d...”
“What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff.”
“On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.”
