#mentat

Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent? ↗

— Karl Rove

#bailing #bailout #bank #began #commentator

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. ↗

— John Zorn

#been #changing #doing #getting #i

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#documentation #maintenance #architecture

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#experiment #experimentation #fear #food #innovation

When we say that humans have a “right” not to be used for these purposes, this means simply that the interest of humans in not being used as non-consenting subjects in experiments will be protected even if the consequences of using them would be very beneficial for the rest of us. The question, then, is why do we think that it is morally acceptable to use nonhumans in experiments but not to use humans? Vivisection, Part Two: The Moral Justification of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach http://bit.ly/oREDH0 ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#moral-justification #utilitarianism #vivisection #experience

Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#on-the-edge #risk #education

Being a shrinking city and a quintessential modern site in flux, Detroit is a testing ground for experimentation and rethinking. ↗

— Luis A. Croquer

#cities #detroit #experimentation #flux #rethinking

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. ↗

— John Thorn

#game #lamentation #much #seventies #woe

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#formats #get #great #how #instrumentation

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything. ↗