#ran

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#achieve #believes #defined #essentials #everything

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#parasitism #rand #jealousy

It could have been possible to put a little more fuck you into his tone, but some of it might've slopped out the sides. ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#jealousy

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#america #appearance #believe #centuries #current

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. ↗

— John Lennon

#blindness #ignorance #life #life

transformation begins with the individual” Dr William Edwards Deming The New Economics - 1993 ↗

— Priyavrat Thareja

#transformation #leadership

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#debate #education #ignorance #informed #knowledge

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ↗

— May Sarton

#frightening #however #may #ourselves #prove

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. ↗

— Charles Jones

#life

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#depression #flower #growth #illness #kindness