#pro

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#criminal #hands #like #pathological #progress

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received. ↗

— John Boehner

#aggression #both #captured #cities #decisive

No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is. ↗

— John Boehner

#difficult #helping #here #home #important

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. ↗

— Humphrey Bogart

#drinks #everyone #few #problem #world

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#architect #asked #beijing #breathe #certainly

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ↗

— George Eliot

#function #go #home #husbands #i

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#breath #charter #conscience #contest #dogma

Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

#literary #offense #production #social

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. ↗

— Noah Kerner

#design #marketing #product #design