#rob

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#equality #exemplary #jackie #jackie robinson #make

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#always #had #i #mistake #people

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#ballads #border #clearly #heroic #hood

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#case #got #government #how #i

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#audible #background #codes #communications #environment

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #bad government #careful #could #end

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#just #major #mistake #potatoes #problems

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. ↗

— Scott Adams

#create #engineers #like #own #problems

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. ↗

— Scott Adams

#approach #be careful #careful #cause #company

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. ↗

— Scott Adams

#even #fact #in fact #influence #influential