#stem

TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all. ↗

— John Mica

#agency #any #bureaucracy #cannot #conversion

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#encourage #establish #help #off #people

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#business #business news #cable #game #got

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#best #broke #claim #doubt #falling

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#bounce #clear #download #each #exchange

I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming problem in our health care system - with rising costs that don't seem, by the way, to be necessarily associated with higher quality. That is the key burden that they will face. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#burden #care #costs #depend #face

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#capability #check #depressed #design #empty

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#fair #going #never #system

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package. ↗

— Robert Kanigel

#computer-algebra-system #history #math #ramanujan #life

To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #science #science