John Maeda Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities. – John Maeda Artists Quotes Built Quotes Convergent Quotes Designers Quotes Divergent Quotes Economy Quotes Execute Quotes Expand Quotes Horizon Quotes People Quotes Possibilities Quotes Thinkers Quotes The best scientists that I’ve met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. We seem to forget that innovation doesn’t just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.
MoneyTheodor W Adorno If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. – Theodor W Adorno
Fred Thompson That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law. – Fred Thompson
James Gleick In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility. – James Gleick
Richard Bonynge If I can’t do an opera as well as most people, I won’t do it at all. I don’t want to touch Wagner because I think a lot of people do it a hell of a lot better than I could. I do the operas I think I can do, know something about. – Richard Bonynge
Jovan Adepo You may not understand your parents’ interpretation of love and what they think is best for you, but you have to trust it. – Jovan Adepo
Richard Pryor I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I’ll get it right one day. – Richard Pryor
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