#acquisition

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. ↗

— Roy Romer

#computers #costly #doing #even #i

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#any #costly #imagine #infinitely #iranian

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. ↗

— Anne Seward

#attention #bestowed #cannot #compositions #countrymen

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#any #build #champions #changed #could

Assaults against women and children are assaults against any potential positive future for the world. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#assault #future-generations #gender-equality #equality

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#education #educational-enrichment #educational-inequity #knowledge-acquisition #learning

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture." ↗

— John Cage

#better #culture #distraction #entertainment #listen

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#against #children #complicit #country #destruction

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#alone #deduction #intuition #knowledge #must

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists