Barry Eisler : (5)

" Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology. " - Barry Eisler

" It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there’s something even better: evidence, logic, and argument. " - Barry Eisler

" There’s an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story. " - Barry Eisler

" Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers’ high hardback margins essentially disappear. " - Barry Eisler

" The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn’t really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it. " - Barry Eisler