#vest

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design. ↗

— Steve Albini

#band #conceptual #design #discovered #general

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#choices #comfort #education #health #immediate

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#apple #chinese #company #customers #engine

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#been #come #compel #conflict #divested

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#art #investment #pathetic #people #think

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#again #completely #crash #determined #everybody

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on. ↗

— Julian Assange

#anyone #effort #engage #groups #harm

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#ages #books #civilization #great #harvest

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#any #country #directive #exert #general

The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner. ↗

— Joe Baca

#american people #applications #benefits #depend #employees