#fin

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #compete #creative #developed #economy

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#even #finish #go #i #sympathy

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#find #i #ideas #old #usually

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#civilization #defined #family #higher #history

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#been #chess #dice #fate #find

You can't die with an unfinished book. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#die #unfinished #you

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#amiable #boat #century #english #every

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could