#pro

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#because #brain #coarse #connections #dog

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. ↗

— Charles Vest

#been #consumer #cost #growth #half

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#business #businessmen #capable #democracy #democratic

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#else #great #i #i think #making

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music. ↗

— John Zorn

#get #i #improvisation #improvise #improvising

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?' ↗

— Jerry Zucker

#always #any #ask #i #i always

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#complex #culture #elegant #google #i

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#calling #charity #governments #i #i think

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#basic human rights #food #human #human rights #must

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#anything #because #catholic #catholic church #church