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When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#came #coming #couple #eat #hi

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#broke #english #fine #fingers #get

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#define #middle #middle class #poor #wealthy

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#bill #bridges #buildings #built #buy

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#attribution #believe #control #copyright #creator

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. ↗

— Kurtis Blow

#championships #famous #hip-hop #things #two

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#around #because #competitively #disadvantage #doing

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ↗

— Monica Edwards

#case #dealing #device #happiness #her

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#become #business #dedicated #devote #engineering

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#climate #concerning #highly #i #i am