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Jensen Huang Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
I’d rather be a market maker, market creator than a market taker. You know, to create something new that never existed before versus thinking about share.
Recorded Patrick Collison, Stripe Sessions 2024, 2024 source ↗
Some people think that anti-Semitism didn’t really exist in Germany until 1933. I certainly don’t want to take anything away from Hitler’s guilt, but the anti-Semitism I grew up with predated Hitler. We were called names. We had stones thrown at us. And, yes, this created real sorrow. We defended ourselves as well as we could. Funny thing, the common name we were called was Isaac—the way Muslims are called Ali or Mohammed. They’d call out, Isaac, go back to Palestine, leave our home, go to your place. They threw stones at us and shouted, Go to Palestine. Then in Palestine we were told to leave Palestine—history juxtaposed can be very ironic.
Recorded Lawrence Joseph, Cafés in Greenwich Village, New York, The Paris Review, Issue 122, Spring 1992, 1992 source ↗
Alan Cumming Scottish actor, producer, director, writer and presenter
I don’t like the concept of not being allowed to go somewhere just because you’re not part of the gang. In London, it seems like everywhere is a club. I hate the fact you’ve got to be a member of one to get a late-night drink in the center. It’s horrible. And I mean, I’m a member of one there, but I never go to it. There’s something about them that is kind of culty, actually—the idea that we are the in-crowd.
Recorded Interview, Rorschach Test, Interview Magazine, 2 January 2025 source ↗
George Lucas Filmmaker; creator of Star Wars and founder of Lucasfilm
Yeah, and it’s made it considerably more difficult. It’s funny when you look back now, because everybody’s sort of copied those films. They’re so ingrained in the culture now, it’s almost impossible to think there was a point where those things were completely odd and unique.
Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, Skywalker Ranch, California, 1 June 1999 source ↗

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