#ps

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#also #america #among #analyze #diversity

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#agents #been #between #business #commercial

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists. ↗

— Andy Murray

#lot #psychologists #sports #use

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#business #business school #computer #computer science #development

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#helps #plan #pregnancies #should #their

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#breathless #cannot #element #excited #grasp

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#corpses #critical #desert #lice #like

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ↗

— David Storey

#another #essence #friendship #lapses #little

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 can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#company #desk #doing #executive #keeps