Shawn Wallace

“2012 survey of employed adults showed that 80 percent of the respondents continued to work after leaving the office, 38 percent checked e-mail at the dinner table, and 69 percent can’t go to bed without checking their in-box. 19”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Everything grand is made from a series of ugly little moments. Everything worthwhile by hours of self-doubt and days of drudgery. All the works by people you and I admire sit atop a foundation of failures.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“She was the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met. And she was pretty to look at too.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“In an industry where usage is a function of purchase rather than a real desire for the item, technology providers will obviously optimize for the purchasing process. But in reality, that is no longer true today, and hasn’t been true for years. As with IM or the iPhone, technology is increasingly being driven by bottom-up, rather than top-down, adoption. The world has changed, but only a select few in the technology industry have realized it. As William Gibson might put it, the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”
― Stephen O’Grady, The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World