#vices

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future. ↗

— John Hutton

#applied #been #constructed #essential #fundamental

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive? ↗

— John Hutton

#assume #choice #concepts #exclusive #favour

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend. ↗

— John Hutton

#best #best way #both #businesses #civil

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#generally #going #people #pretty #problem

You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #page- #death

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#devices #harder #much #physical #start-up

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#being #businesses #defense #delivered #industries

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#make #our #ourselves #out #themselves

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#make #our #ourselves #same #those

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services. ↗

— Joe Baca

#ample #cannot #dislocated #federal #funding