#cos

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#profundity #cosmic-ordering

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? ↗

— Bud Abbott

#after #boring #costello #gets #guy

Morality is a private and costly luxury. ↗

— Henry Adams

#luxury #morality #private

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#america #bank #between #change #cos

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more. ↗

— Steve Albini

#big #big mac #bread #buy #cheese

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. ↗

— Tom Allen

#auto #auto industry #blunt #care #care costs

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#approximately #basic #ben #ceo #cloud

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#applications #costs #flaw #fraud #fundamentally

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#about #aim #am #certain #cosmetic