#mos

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#around #because #competitively #disadvantage #doing

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics. ↗

— Luther H. Hodges

#could #dividends #economics #fortune #ignorance

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#ahead #distribution #existing #factories #human

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#facing #global #global warming #harm #idea

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bad times #been #being #better #better off

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#lasts #longer #marriages #most #some

Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out. ↗

— George Eads

#boyfriend #deals #going #had #i

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#effective #effective way #most #way

The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#change #down #fans #get #goes

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#bad thing #cable #coverage #disasters #endless