#red

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. ↗

— Jon Porter

#done #fired #first-hand #five #front

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#achieved #amount #been #brought #childcare

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#application #applications #around #engineered #essence

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#candid #debate #even #know #majority

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#beautiful #clothes #considered #course #i

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#clear #clouds #cocktail #complicated #goes

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#been #buy #continent #covered #eight

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#believe #bothered #cares #critics #everybody

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#because #date #everything #horrible #i