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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#american #american society #cities #despair #inner

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#create #going #got #happen #i

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#change #each #environment #system #trying

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#add #capacities #downsize #fire #hire

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #functions #future #organism #organization

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#future #most #organisms #organizations #past

There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#get #important #lot #out #people

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#after #aircraft #applied #carrier #first

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#develop #first #flights #going #later

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#bachelor #couple #degree #degrees #graduate degree