#sign

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#design

Start with the observation that American law is not designed to catch and punish every instance of illegal conduct. Nothing short of a totalitarian state could do that. It is designed to prosecute persons when there is a reasonable basis for believing they have committed a crime, and then to convict them when there is no reasonable doubt that they are guilty. ↗

— Dale Carpenter

#design

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength. ↗

— Steve Albini

#bands #contract #exact #hundred #label

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#background #children #designed #ensure #enter

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#carter #democrats #difference #increasingly #like

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#community #history #impossible #insignificant #nothing

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comes #composition #design #drawing #equilibrium

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#exclusively #field #first #flight #optimal

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#feel #forget #hanging #important #invisible

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? ↗

— Mary Astell

#alas #design #ever #get #her