“The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, inves...” — Ryan Holmes Quote

“The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.”

“The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.”

“For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.”

“All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'”

“In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.”

“The infinite variety in the properties of the solid materials we find in the world is really the expression of the infinite variety of the ways in which the atoms and molecules can be tied together, and of the strength of those ties.”