Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other.
I write because I can’t sleep.
Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents. . . I try to get inside my stories.
I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.
I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.
Thinkin' of a master plan Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand.
I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.
I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.
Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.