#ay

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty. ↗

— Evan Davis

#biggest #boring #britain #characters #dainty

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. ↗

— Evan Davis

#baggage #behavioural #beings #brain #bring

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. ↗

— Evan Davis

#car #into #look #moment #parked

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!' ↗

— Geena Davis

#back #bends #caught #close #doors

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#always #been #customers #developers #important

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before. ↗

— Geena Davis

#actually #animated #become #been #before

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#i #more #taxes #taxpayers #want

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films. ↗

— Geena Davis

#believe #choices #current #daughter #decades

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#associate #conditions #delayed #diseases #earlier

Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#asylum #australia #concern #concerns #generally