#arch

The problem in this business isn’t to keep people from stealing your ideas; it's making them steal your ideas! ↗

— Howard Aiken

#ideas #research #science #business

I bet you were all only children, or felt isolated, or busy “training” and stuff. I bet none of you can lay claim to knowing what a normal teen life is supposed to be! Geez, you’re so judgmental, I wanna puke! ↗

— Cissie King-Jones Peter David

#dc-comics #jlu #yj #young-justice- #business

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor. ↗

— Charles Dow

#pride #men

Unfortunately, in a hierarchical structure, power relationships tend to determine the content; there is always the danger that a "rank-based" logic will prevail. Managers, intent on advancement, tend to supply the information they know their superiors want to hear, rather than the information they ought to hear. Large organizations tend, therefore, to become systematically stupid. ↗

— John Médaille

#politics #relationship

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. ↗

— Voltairine de Cleyre

#atheism #religion #religion

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#science #science

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile. ↗

— Hans Selye

#science #science

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

#communal-memory #humanity #humanity-and-society #humans #libraries

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#archangel #becca-fitzpatrick #fallen-angel #hush-hush #patch

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lies #state