#comp

The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally. ↗

— Andrew Gould

#companies #expertise #more #national #oil

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#ideas #lie #minds #only #reach

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#athletic #cannot #children #compare #enjoy

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#any #because #children #complexities #husband

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Bob Graham

#compelling #destruction #developing #evidence #had

I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different. ↗

— Heather Graham

#completely #different #feel #guess #guy

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#better off #better way #business #close #complicated