#arc

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#career #finished #here #i #last

I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#copied #doing #finding #going #i

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. ↗

— Michael Ende

#above #architect #because #building #cheaper

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#cell #cell research #embryonic #embryonic stem cell #embryonic stem cell research

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#done #glad #listen #music #necessarily

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

#because #cannot #easy #free #free life

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#bottom #bottom line #contemporary #eliminates #expression

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#choice #consultants #forward #industry #itself

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#am #funded #i #i am #ignored

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#close #does #doing #doing good #fact