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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 59abfb9 | A tragedy like this, we all blame ourselves. | Max Barry | ||
| a8a42dd | He strode briskly away, to do whatever it was the managers did. Have meetings, I guess. Make phone calls. It was hard for us on the technical side to understand why the company required so many managers. Engineers built things. Salespeople sold things. Even Human Resources I could understand, kind of. But managers proliferated despite performing very few identifiable functions. | human-resources managers salespeople | Max Barry | |
| 4df6743 | The newspapers said nobody made it out alive." "Surely you didn't trust them." -- | Max Barry | ||
| 4a31f96 | I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks. | Max Barry | ||
| d161cca | Imagine a hundred million people clicking polls and typing in their favorite TV shows and products and political leanings, day after day. It's the biggest data profile ever. And it's voluntary. That's the funny part. People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. | people social | Max Barry | |
| 8bb2a37 | The modern conservative movement was inspired by Barry Goldwater's canonical text from 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative. | Max Boot | ||
| 7c0acb4 | Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience. | planning plans thinking travel | Max Barry | |
| 19ace01 | Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea pig. But there was a long tradition of scientists doing just that: of paying for the expansion of human knowledge with their lives. I didn't deserve to be categorized with them, because honestly, I wasn't interested in the greater good. I just wanted to make myself better legs. I didn't mind other people bene.. | Max Barry | ||
| 30535f3 | To succeed in sales, you need skills--not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless. | Max Barry | ||
| 6923020 | He shook his head to clear it, but the world grew dark and angry and would not stay upright. The world did not like to be shaken. He understood that now. He wouldn't shake it again. He felt his feet sliding away from him on silent roller skates and reached for a wall for support. The wall cursed and dug its fingers into his arm, and was probably not a wall. It was probably a person. | lexicon | Max Barry | |
| 8d40aaf | Kikkhf fkattkx hfkixu zttkcu," she said." | Max Barry | ||
| 24cfcd4 | Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. | loneliness privacy | Max Barry | |
| a8f0f9c | It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable. | Max Barry | ||
| 47ddb65 | I hadn't known this about love: that you did not need to deserve it. I thought there was a set of criteria, like a good sense of humor and looks and wealth. You could compensate deficiencies in one area with excellence in another, hence rich, ugly men with beautiful wives. But there was an algorithm involved. That was why I thought I was unloved: I didn't score highly enough. I had made some attempts to improve my score and also told myself.. | Max Barry | ||
| d5c94ac | The unpainted walls of the long rectangular room were soaked with the smell of greasy chicken and warm, headless beer. The brown and pink faces floated above the trails of used cigarette smoke like bodiless carnival balloons. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| b712a49 | She sincerely liked Mattie because unlike the others, Mattie never found the time to do jury duty on other people's lives. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 535522b | A rumor needs no true parent. It only needs a willing carrier, | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 71b6e53 | Ceil moaned. Mattie rocked. Propelled by the sound, Mattie rocked her out of that bed, out of that room, into a blue vastness just underneath the sun and above time. She rocked her over Aegean seas so clean they shine like crystal, so clear the fresh blood of sacrificed babies torn from their mothers arms and given to Neptune could be seen like pink froth on the water. She rocked her on and on, past Dachau, where soul-gutted Jewish mothers .. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| c35edab | God had given her what she prayed for--a little boy who would always need her. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| aa10dd1 | Etta and Mattie went way back, a singular term that claimed co-knowledge of all the important events in their lives and almost all of the unimportant ones. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 4e3727e | I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air | street way | Gunnar Staalesen | |
| 73119e3 | Vakten ga tydelig inntrykk av at han trodde damemennesket hadde hallusinasjoner eller ogsa hadde forlest seg pa Agatha Christie, men man visste jo aldri. | Gunnar Staalesen | ||
| deaa445 | I mitt fag finnes det to muligheter nar du skal oppsoke folk. Du kan ringe pa forhand, si hvem du er, og etter all sannsynlighet bli avvist allerede da. Eller du kan oppsoke dem personlig, hjemme eller pa jobb. Da er det straks litt vanskeligere for dem a si nei. | Gunnar Staalesen | ||
| 5cacd03 | Based on David Hornik's story, you might predict that givers achieve the worst results--and you'd be right. Research demonstrates that givers sink to the bottom of the success ladder. Across a wide range of important occupations, givers are at a disadvantage: they make others better off but sacrifice their own success in the process. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 07240f8 | Although many successful givers start from the default of trusting others' intentions, they're also careful to scan their environments to screen for potential takers, always ready to shift from feeling a taker's emotions to analyzing a taker's thoughts, and flex from giving unconditionally to a more measured approach of generous tit for tat. And when they feel inclined to back down, successful givers are prepared to draw reserves of asserti.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 0aeee72 | Now that you have a bit of respect, you value your standing in the group and don't want to jeopardize it. To maintain and then gain status, you play a game of follow-the-leader, conforming to prove your worth as a group member. As | Adam M. Grant | ||
| baf62bb | Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it's valuable in a marathon | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 7967ffd | a young Goldman Sachs banker named Joseph Park was sitting in his apartment, frustrated at the effort required to get access to entertainment. Why should he trek all the way to Blockbuster to rent a movie? He should just be able to open a website, pick out a movie, and have it delivered to his door. Despite raising around $250 million, Kozmo, the company Park founded, went bankrupt in 2001. His biggest mistake was making a brash promise for.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 03f4306 | Feeling foolish, I scowled at her. "Does it amuse you to mock me, my lady?" "A little." Refreshed by sleep, her eyes sparkled unrepentantly. "You are so very serious, my shadow." -- | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| af2534b | In 1927, Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik demonstrated that people have a better memory for incomplete than complete tasks. Once a task is finished, we stop thinking about it. But when it is interrupted and left undone, it stays active in our minds. As | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 9a2fb3d | What she referenced with such careless ease seemed a world-shattering notion to me. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 8fb0036 | And in the long run, research shows that the mistakes we regret are not errors of commission, but errors of omission. If we could do things over, most of us would censor ourselves less and express our ideas more. That's | Adam M. Grant | ||
| ec67a84 | Bilim suphesiz ki iki tarafi keskin bir kilictir; cozume ulastirdigi sayida problem yaratir, ve yarattigi her problem bir oncekinden hep daha zordur. | Michio Kaku | ||
| bd53ccb | The physicist Niels Bohr was fond of saying, "Prediction is very hard to do. Especially about the future" -- | Michio Kaku | ||
| e319ded | The deep space transport uses a new type of propulsion system to send astronauts through space, called solar electric propulsion. The huge solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity. This is used to strip away the electrons from a gas (like xenon), creating ions. An electric field then shoots these charged ions out one end of the engine, creating thrust. Unlike chemical engines, which can only fire for a few minutes, ion en.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| a827d4a | Either this guy's a total idiot, or he's the biggest genius to hit physics in years! | Michio Kaku | ||
| 098fecc | If we scan all the life-forms that have ever existed on the Earth, from microscopic bacteria to towering forests, lumbering dinosaurs, and enterprising humans, we find that more than 99.9 percent of them eventually became extinct. This means that extinction is the norm, that the odds are already stacked heavily against us. When we dig beneath our feet into the soil to unearth the fossil record, we see evidence of many ancient life-forms. Ye.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 837fa60 | I. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. II. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. III. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. --ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S THREE LAWS | Michio Kaku | ||
| 94fad2d | They found that temperature and carbon dioxide levels have oscillated in parallel, like two roller coasters moving together, in synchronization over many thousands of years. When one curve rises or falls, so does the other. Most important, they found a sudden spike in temperature and carbon dioxide content happening just within the last century. This is highly unusual, since most fluctuations occur slowly over millennia. This unusual spike .. | Michio Kaku | ||
| f39457c | Along with providing time to generate novel ideas, procrastination has another benefit: it keeps us open to improvisation. When we plan well in advance, we often stick to the structure we've created, closing the door to creative possibilities that might spring into our fields of vision. Years | Adam M. Grant | ||
| a709b02 | Today the leading (and only) candidate for a theory of everything is string theory. But, again, a backlash has arisen. Opponents claim that to get a tenured position at a top university you have to work on string theory. If you don't you will be unemployed. It's the fad of the moment, and it's not good for physics. I smile when I hear this criticism, because physics, like all human endeavors, is subject to fads and fashions. The fortunes of.. | Michio Kaku | ||
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| 78750a2 | in the words of the physicist Michio Kaku, who goes on: "In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and stars is the distortion of space and time." Of" | Bill Bryson |