Lausanne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lausanne

The city has been traditionally quiet but in the late 1960s and early 1970s there were a series of mainly youth demonstrations confronted by the police that gave rise to the motto ‘Lausanne bouge’. In a rare showmanship of anti-authoritarianism, the youth responded by ascribing to the word flic (literally “cop”) the term, Fédération Lausannoise des Imbéciles Casqués. The next vigorous demonstrations took place to protest against the high cinema prices and since then the city has returned to its sleepy self.
La ciudad ha sido tradicionalmente tranquila pero hacia los finales de los 60 y principios de los 70 hubo una seria de manifestaciones de jovenes confrontados con la policia que dieron lugar al dicho ‘Lausanne se mueve’. En una rara demostracion de anti-autoritarianismo, los jovenes respondieron asociando la palabra francesa ‘flic’ (literalmente ‘cana’) al acronimo de ‘Federacion Lausaniense de Imbeciles con Casco’. Las siguientes demostraciones de vigor fueron para protestar contra los precios altos del cine y desde entonces la ciudad volvio a su naturaleza dormilona.

Steve Jobs on Entrepreneurship

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/sj1.html

I get asked this a lot and I have a pretty standard answer which is, a lot of people come to me and say “I want to be an entrepreneur”. And I go “Oh that’s great, what’s your idea?”. And they say “I don’t have one yet”. And I say “I think you should go get a job as a busboy or something until you find something you’re really passionate about because it’s a lot of work”. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don’t blame them. Its really tough and it consumes your life. If you’ve got a family and you’re in the early days of a company, I can’t imagine how one could do it. I’m sure its been done but its rough. Its pretty much an eighteen hour day job, seven days a week for awhile. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give it up. So you’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about otherwise you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that’s half the battle right there.