"Jobs is obviously a remarkable person, but there are probably 100 Steve Jobs born every year. The vast majority just never have a chance or give a thought to starting a revolutionary new company."
"The $5 billion he will receive upon exercising those options will be treated as salary, and Mr. Zuckerberg will have a tax bill of more than $2 billion, quite possibly making him the largest taxpayer in history."
"For most of our history, children have started their internships when they were seven, not 27."
"Our Juliets (as parents longing for grandchildren will recognize with a sigh) may experience the tumult of love for 20 years before they settle down into motherhood. And our Romeos may be poetic lunatics under the influence of Queen Mab until they are well into graduate school."
"a new Stanford University study, researchers have determined that girls between the ages of 8 and 12 who spend “considerable” time using social media are likely to be “less happy” than their unplugged peers."
"Well, no. But do you think about it all the time? Is preventing violent assault or murder part of your daily routine, rather than merely something you do when you venture into war zones? Because, for women, it is."
"Twitter is set to roll out enhanced profile pages after Feb. 1, a source tells us, and those pages will give brands the ability to build platforms on their pages that could include iFrame environments, allowing users to play games or shop on a brand’s site without actually leaving the Twitter environment."
"Gojee is so secretive, they wouldn’t even tell us why they were being so secretive. Since launching in July 2011, the company has 300,000 members signed up and told us they’ve done no advertising, marketing or SEO.
They’re sticking strictly to the old fashioned “word-of-mouth” method. In contrast to what most companies are doing right now, Gojee wants to create a private experience, sort of the “anti-community."
"It may be that the internet simply makes the big box brick-and-mortar retailer economically unviable, and that one day, we’ll have to buy big ticket items on faith, without being able to look at them ahead of time. Perhaps the internet will get better at showing us our merchandise, developing virtual avatars so that we can try on clothes and put furniture in our rooms. Or perhaps some entrepreneur will go into the showroom business: pay $5, and browse to your heart’s content."
"But to do this, retailers need the cooperation of the manufacturers. Target needs specialized products that can’t be procured anywhere else—or at least, products that are sufficiently hard to compare to the stuff on Amazon."
"I am beginning to worry that our unusually young and good looking UPS guy thinks there is an ulterior motive behind the volume of our orders."
"But they can also choose an option that is increasingly rare and precious—four years of study and self-discovery, and a brief window of time when, for once, gender truly doesn’t matter."
"We had assumed … that after the pioneering years of undergraduate education at Princeton, women would have moved steadily into more and more prominence in campus leadership … [Instead] there has been a pronounced drop-off in the representation of women in these prominent posts since around 2000."
