#works

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#how #look #market #need #speculators

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#criticism #get #give #learn #read

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#baggage #down #emotional #empirical #how

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

#all things #anything #each #ease #else

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #because #becomes #beginning #bits

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#architecture #arising #arts #formed #help

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#any #belongs #caesar #fault #finding

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file. ↗

— Jon Postel

#because #data #delivered #does #errors

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together. ↗

— Jon Postel

#cooperate #internet #lot #people #things

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#favorite #favorite things #fortunately #i #kids