“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Book Copy Share Image
“Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Currency 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
“The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Children Copy Share Image
“Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds blindness” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Contempt 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
“What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World.… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Changing the world 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
“Sri Lanka is a beautiful little island nation parked perilously close to India; a little too hot, a little too humid, and… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne India 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 Bank account Copy Share Image
“The Buddha, Christ and Mohammed had to rely on God and karma and human priests for judgement; we don’t. We have data.… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Buddha Copy Share Image
“We’re going to tell these people that they dropped because Facebook dropped us. We're going to say the Number needs the data… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“Bunch of people go out to the Valley, create something new. Us out here in the world go hmm, that's interesting, and… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne News 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 Alcohol 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
“Julius used to say that we stood on the shoulders of giants. To me it always seemed like we were in their… — 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 Communication Copy Share Image
“The world I grew up in was a brutal one. The murder rate was once seven people for every hundred thousand. The… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Economics Copy Share Image
“This is how we progress as humans. We went from horseless carriages to self-driving, self-organizing transport in a hundred and fifty years.… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Future Copy Share Image
“I recounted my adventures, just as I recount them to you now. I told him about Bombay, which glowed in the night… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Adventure Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that the history of the world is largely a history of sustainable systems. Every so often a system comes… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne American culture 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 Bad jokes Copy Share Image
“Back in 2015, a volunteer group called Bitnation set up something called the Blockchain Emergency ID. There’s not a lot of data… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Financial services Copy Share Image
“Beautiful women have a following all their own. If that sounds misogynistic, I’m sorry, that’s the way the world works. Homer said… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Beautiful women Copy Share Image
“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission,… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Alcohol 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
