Cities Quote by Steven Pinker

I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor [to East].…

— Masayoshi Son

I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.

— Genesis P-Orridge

I first got online in the late '80s when I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in…

— Caterina Fake

When I worked with anybody like Woody Allen, there's the name, and your understanding of who they are before you meet them, that stays…

— Alden Ehrenreich

“Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and…

— Ashlee Vance

I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. A fan of Jorge Luis…

— Caterina Fake

“In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years,…

— Walter Isaacson

Steve [Jobs] and I spent months getting to know each other before I joined Apple. He had no exposure to marketing other than what…

— John Sculley

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business…

— Matt Mullenweg

I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I liked a…

— Pierre Berge

I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

— John Sherman Cooper