#ow

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#catch #certain #close #cut #down

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#average #before #choosing #committee #crap

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own. ↗

— Connie Mack

#born #own #strikes #take #third

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning. ↗

— Hannah Storm

#colin #colin powell #joining #morning #much

Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most. ↗

— Michael Storm

#another #bridges #burning #did #end

This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled. ↗

— Michael Storm

#fun #great #happen #nice #paycheck

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#advanced #any #back #beliefs #derivative

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#few #first #first time #how #i

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. ↗

— Joseph Story

#best #fidelity #first #good #good government

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ↗

— Joseph Story

#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed