#chi

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#awful #buy #cost #going #goodness

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#back #backwards #clear #find #forward

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#actually #announced #bureaucracy #congress #effort

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#destruction #imagine #innocent #mass #men

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword. ↗

— Steven Runciman

#came #christianity #islam #never #peace

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#any #children #could #group #happens

I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them. ↗

— Ian Rush

#always #ball club #both #club #coaching

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#behavior #biological #consequences #crime #differences