#ere

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure. ↗

— William Vickrey

#effect #enter #exert #high #inflationary

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#composers #everyone #everywhere #forget #greatest

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#attained #begin #circumstance #commence #earliest

I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid. ↗

— Neko Case

#am #another #anyone #being #comes

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team. ↗

— Steve Case

#align #even #great #great team #impact

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal. ↗

— Steve Case

#cartridge #essentially #game #idea #interactive

Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you. ↗

— Steve Case

#could #devices #did #games #had

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them. ↗

— Steve Case

#biggest challenges #challenges #computers #decade #first

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years. ↗

— Steve Case

#critical #did #five #partnerships #strategic

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#crude #delicate #finally #first #nature