”We’ve never had an efficiency focus in the company before.”
💬 Marc Benioff
“A big component of our growth strategy going forward will be improving productivity.”
💬 Salesforce President Brian Millham
Good to know chaps. Good to know.
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“One last thing, as this seems somehow connected to the story – as I was walking up the hill to Rick Rubin’s studio that morning, I saw a handsome man, dressed in black trousers and a red shirt with the sleeves rolled up, leaning against the hood of a big American car, smoking a cigarette. The man looked like he’d stepped out of a movie. It was Joe Strummer from The Clash. Hi, Joe, I said. Hey man, he said, what are you doing here? I’m going to sing with Johnny Cash, I said. Joe nodded and smiled and sucked on his cigarette. Then he gave a little slow-motion wave as I went inside.”
💬 Nick Cave, Red Hand Files
“While writing the the Atlantic piece, I remembered that Dahl and Ian Fleming were friends - Dahl wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice, the Bond film where Sean Connery tapes up his eyes to pass for Japanese, and the viewer finally sees Blofeld’s scarred face.”
💬 Helen Lewis
Today I Learned so much, like two new things just in this single quote!
“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside.”
💬 Ursula K. Le Guin
“Unnoticeable life. Noticeable failure.”
💬 Franz Kafka
Diary entry on February 20th, 101 years ago.
If only he knew.
(via Diaries of Note )
“Oracle, greatest company name ever, should be in the AI business. Their brand was born for it!
💬 Sam Lessin, The Information
“There is another one that goes something like “every time a door closes, another one opens.” Myself, I’d be looking at the draughts in that house.”
💬 William Gallagher
I wrote an email this morning, responding to something that had been sent to me, announcing - and I paraphrase - that despite the longevity of the work that he had been personally driving for decades, …