#scale

We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about. ↗

— Greg Bear

#another #attack #committed #inevitable #know

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. ↗

— John Bolton

#except #favor #horrific #larger #larger scale

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question. ↗

— James Collins

#help #i #know #large #large scale

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#build #chaos #intense #invites #large

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#both #community #georgian #individual #respected

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ↗

— Bill Gates

#co2 #create #electricity #emerging #energy

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

What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world. ↗

— Steve Largent

#capital #consolidation #formation #give #happening