Phil Condit Quotes

We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

Phil Condit

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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Gary Hamel
- Up
- Time
- World
Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

Fiona McIntosh
- People
- World
- Book
China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

Iqbal Quadir
- World
- Power
- Energy
I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

Nathan Fillion
- World
- Trying
- Power
In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

Walter Kirn
- World
- Way
- Stupidity
We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.

Salman Khurshid