#serve

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#find #i #little #little things #move

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us. ↗

— George Tenet

#awake #been #better #could #deserve

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back. ↗

— Dave Thomas

#basics #clean #comes #comfortable #coming

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#failure #faithfully #noble #serves #sometimes

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#because #body #end #flesh #get

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#because #been #collaboration #desktop #ditch

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#appear #fool #i #like #observed

Power ought to serve as a check to power. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#check #ought #serve