#no

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#maxims #philosophy #science #experience

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications. ↗

— Peter Bart

#always #carries #cut #economic #even

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October. ↗

— Peter Bart

#ceo #disney #down #eisner #entertainment

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. ↗

— John Barth

#attributed #everything #intrinsically #itself #nothing

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#lie #myth #neither #nor

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#after #china #clinton #clinton administration #continue

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#good #helped #i #job #just

Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines. ↗

— Michael Grant

#differences #minorities #experience

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual