#vera

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#collaboration #distance #even #field #forces

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#average #becomes #center #enjoy #eva

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#among #christian #defects #fundamentalists #hundred

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#addition #average #billion #california #emergency

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. ↗

— Helen Garner

#arrive #book #decisions #felt #how

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#any #been #disaster #enough #i

At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#ajax #applications #been #doing #interaction

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#average #before #choosing #committee #crap

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#companies #coverage #decreased #employers #former