#one

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#became #classified #clearance #considered #could

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. ↗

— Jack Gould

#half #hire #i #i can #kill

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#happy #i #make #sad #things

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#bone #closer #cuts #err #establishing

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#beginning #created #dedication #economic #emerged

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#beast #brute #everything #god #live

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#half #intelligent #know #men #mr

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#alongside #back #began #coming #dark

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#challenge #disillusioned #illusions #live #modernity

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#animal #boring #bunch #concrete #down