Quotes for All
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity. Eugene Jarecki
[On Richard P. Feynman’s live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a scientist asks her a clear … Read more
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity. Douglas Hofstadter
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. David Cameron
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don’t … Read more
Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn’t always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely … Read more
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance – they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage. Curt Sachs
When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity. Confucius
The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn’t have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don’t adjust, and that’s how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don’t adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations. Charles … Read more
Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: ‘We’ve always done it that way’ Catherine DeVrye