#lie

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast. ↗

— James D. Watson

#fast #going #pace #unbelievably

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#company #cost #employee #experience #fire

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ↗

— Alan Watts

#believe #born #defend #estates #heirs

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ↗

— Alan Watts

#attitude #belief #clinging #holding #holding on

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#hell #i #just #know #liked

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #badly #based #because

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#about #believed #changed #color #democrat

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#believe #black #bring #candidates #capturing

The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#benefit #budget #democrats #determining #directly