#ill

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#answer #approach #choosing #ever #first

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#cases #consumed #exchange #goal #knowledge

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#becoming #central #decisions #guarantee #increasingly

Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#best #called #even #goes #going

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#believe #come #everything #finished #time

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#confess #more #sell #sins #will

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? ↗

— Jack Ma

#billion #i #love #right

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Jack Ma

#cannot #i #life #microsoft #my life

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #effort #even #finding #framing

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed