#ow

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#before #benefit #could #creative #empowers

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. ↗

— David Baltimore

#answer #contexts #different #does #evident

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#companies #five #good #grown #industry

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#best #best way #his #known #let us

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

#another #cannot #i #know #language

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. ↗

— Stefan Banach

#creation #human #human spirit #mathematics #most

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#enhances #family #family life #few #how

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do. ↗

— George Linnaeus Banks

#blue #good #heaven #i #i can

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#distinct #find #groups #had #i

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. ↗

— John Carmack

#both #completing #eyes #focused #goal