“The creative community has a lot more ideas than the executive community feels comfortable with.”

—  Josh Pate

Source: Surfacing with Josh Pate https://web.archive.org/web/20080409004815/http://www.mania.com:80/surfacing-josh-pate_article_49815.html (October 10, 2005)

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