#pro

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#apollo #big #contributor #doubt #engineering

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#mediocre #other #people #physicists #progress

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#buy #consumerism #getting #improve #lives

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#policies #privileges #protects #system #wants

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#create #every #prohibition #underground #you

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#argument #bosnia #depends #done #hand

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#cannot #much #problem #prove #someone

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#affairs #assured #friends #future #our

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges