“Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. ...” — Jonathan Safran Foer Quote

“Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.”

“Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.”

“Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.”

“The United States ran the table on Internet innovations, creating companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, YouTube, and others. Europe and Japan scarcely contributed.”

“People knew about IBM before they knew about Apple. Sometimes it takes a little longer for better to win.”

“The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.”