Daisy Alioto
- Advice for other startup founders: 1. Starting a company is annoying and hard in ways you shouldn't expect anyone else to validate or sympathize with 2. The average service job is at least 10x harder 3. Believing you can change the world is only useful as an early motivator, the second it becomes a moral shield it's diminishing returns 4. Yo... See more
- “he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.” ― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
- "When I am dead do not name me in relation to capital I will be wageless & worthless & perfect." –Brendan Joyce
- "Where is the worst place to die?” asked Noah. He slid a few inches deeper into the hot tub and looked around at everyone’s reaction. Cecily was facing away from him. She ashed her cigarette into a glass tray emblazoned with an Italian beer brand. Noah waited expectantly. His chest hair undulated under the water, which glowed green in the slope’... See more
- The harder I sell to you the less I believe in you.
- “If design is merely an inducement to consume, then we must reject design; if architecture is merely the codifying of the bourgeois models of ownership and society, then we must reject architecture; if architecture and town planning [are] merely the formalization of present unjust social divisions, then we must reject town planning and its cities …... See more
- We are made for survival not edification.
- “First you do everything possible to make sure your world is antibourgeois, that it defies bourgeois tastes, that it mystifies the mob, the public, that it outdistances the insensible middle-class multitudes by light-years of subtlety and intellect—and then, having succeeded admirably, you ask with a sense of See-what-I-mean? outrage: look, they do... See more
- "I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love." – Frank O'Hara
- If I am a rib, let me be the one closest to your heart– synchrony was the only calligraphy they had in Eden. I follow you around with my pen tip wet, like a cat stalks little flying things and bits of Styrofoam.