#ode

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#cycle #fluctuations #inflation #lower #modest

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#depending #different #direction #episodes #few

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ↗

— Truman Capote

#act #badly #good #life is a #moderately

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#cause #code #environment #ever #exist

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. ↗

— Drew Carey

#abraham lincoln #ago #day #essentially #fit

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#body #instinctively #knows #less #medicine

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other. ↗

— John Carmack

#addition #also #code #cost #each

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

#consume #could #exploded #i #me

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#exactness #extremes #mind #moderation #narrows

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#attached #being #challenge #character #create