#ape

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#growing #much #rest #shape #states

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#fire #ice #imagine #necessary #nostalgia

All reactionaries are paper tigers. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#reactionaries #tigers

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#atom bomb #bomb #fact #in fact #looks

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#communicate #easiest #easy #enough #family

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#cheapest #communicate #easiest #easy #enough

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#course #does #energy #energy sources #everything

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper. ↗

— Dan Glickman

#down #industry #movie #movie industry #paper

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#future #getting #getting older #i #later