#served

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available. ↗

— Donald Norman

#available #better #device #free #get

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. ↗

— Bill Nye

#budget #cutting #engine #exploration #innovation

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then? ↗

— Bill Nye

#earth #fiction #images #like #mars

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#either #emotional #fathers #mothers #reserved

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved. ↗

— Alain Prost

#bit #english #i #i think #look

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#advice #chance #count #down #ever

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. ↗

— Elihu Root

#become #case #community #conduct #continued

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#even #fight #great #great minds #minds

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#began #differences #differently #eye #film