#vent

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #before #big #big thing #desktop

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#advance #attitude #bankrupting #coming #country

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#adding #could #crossed #did #done

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#get #i #inspiration #stories #unconventional

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. ↗

— Helen Keller

#either #great #life #nothing

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#asks #ever #inventor #other #people

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#company #get #him #inventor #market

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#government #most #prevent #rather #than

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗