#ace

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#education #educational-system #faces #education

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. ↗

— Iris Chang

#back #born #china #chinese #civil

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet. ↗

— Jung Chang

#baby #climb #feet #i #i remember

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces. ↗

— Michael Chang

#faces #i #i think #lord #me

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#extent #influence #kind #measured #surface

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#contact #easier #facebook #few #fits

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#anything #could #else #facebook #friends

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again. ↗

— James Chanos

#been #difficult #prosper #space #technology

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' ↗

— James Chanos

#australia #china #clearly #clients #complacency

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#almost #billion #child #china #commercial