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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

~Douglas Horton

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Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

~Douglas Leone

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I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

~Douglas Preston

Topics: Back Behind Better Big Might Need Room Small Smaller Sneak Someone Up Where Write

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He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

~Douglas Reed

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Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Anti-War Authentic Back Blue Blue Jeans Could Culture Eventually Find Heavy Heavy Metal Jeans Kids Look Mainstream Mainstream Media Mall Market Media Metal Most Out Psychedelic Rap Since Then Things Whether Youth Youth Culture 1960S

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Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Back Bandit Bit Check Coming Down Email Every Juicy Just Keeps Know Las Vegas Like Little Machine More Once Pop Quarters Reward Roulette Some Three Vegas While You Your

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Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Air Back Emergency Experienced Interruption Mobile People Perpetual Put Similar State Traffic

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Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Am American Back Best Conservation Despite Disappointment Example Foreign Foreign Policy Goes Great Land Long Long Way Policy Proud Tradition Very Way Wild World I Am

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