#ect

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#felt #forces #necessary #nuclear #nuclear weapons

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#characteristic #direction #historical #ignorance #just

The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever. ↗

— Scott McNealy

#delivered #electricity #ever #homes #makes

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#completely #directing #films #i #i write

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future. ↗

— George Herbert Mead

#events #experience #future #however #including

A brick could be used as a laxative. You know, “Shit a brick.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#connection #direct #direct connection #fun #handled

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#could #fountain #get #good #i

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#architecture