“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds blindness” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“We have every piece of data on 200 million people,” he said, ticking off his fingers. “We have their bank accounts. We… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“This is the Number. It is in the things we do, the people we meet, the ID cards that we carry. It's… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“I have always loved being behind the camera. I love how it sets you apart in a crowd, so that you can… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“here was a particular kind of energy in those early days, something I've only really found in startups. The regulars - the… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“here was a particular kind of energy in those early days, something I've only really found in startups. The regulars - the boring 9-to-5… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“Then I realized that the history of the world is largely a history of sustainable systems. Every so often a system comes along that… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“This is how we progress as humans. We went from horseless carriages to self-driving, self-organizing transport in a hundred and fifty years. We went… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“Beautiful women have a following all their own. If that sounds misogynistic, I’m sorry, that’s the way the world works. Homer said the Greeks… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“This is the Number. It is in the things we do, the people we meet, the ID cards that we carry. It's part of… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“Bunch of people go out to the Valley, create something new. Us out here in the world go hmm, that's interesting, and start using… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“Sri Lanka is a beautiful little island nation parked perilously close to India; a little too hot, a little too humid, and perhaps too… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“We’re going to tell these people that they dropped because Facebook dropped us. We're going to say the Number needs the data and it's… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
“I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was almost as… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share
