#unlike

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#capitalism #highest #most #necessary #revolution

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#arithmetic #because #calculus #domain #fractions

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded. ↗

— Suze Orman

#assuming #assured #back #been #bond

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out. ↗

— George Osborne

#conservative #i #independent #just #labour

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood. ↗

— Bev Perdue

#mitt romney #obama #parenthood #planned #planned parenthood

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. ↗

— Tom Peters

#because #being #believing #change #change the world

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#example #himself #nixon #obama #predecessor

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#application #applications #around #engineered #essence