“The world I grew up in was a brutal one. The murder rate was once seven people for every hundred thousand. The average American on minimum wage could barely afford to keep themselves alive on canned food. Millions died over… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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. We went… — 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 I; and… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 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 the Greeks… — 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 part of… — 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 start using… — 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 better class… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 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 perhaps too… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 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 and it's… — 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 almost as… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
