“Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.” KindChildrenWholeJobsRaising ChildrenManuals Author:Larry Elder
“To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.” WorldChildrenHouseMoralOpinionShootingEducate Author:Larry Elder
“In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.” DoneLimitsBehaviorMajorsInvestmentSettingSettingsArrangementsMonitoring Book:Governing the Commons Source: Governing the Commons
“Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.” ReasonFormDistancePatientIntimacyEditorsPsychiatristCandorDeep Friendship Author:Jason Epstein
“Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.” TechnologyIncreaseDisappearDigitalPublishersExploitsBookstoresInventoryDigital Technology Author:Jason Epstein
“You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.” ThinkingKnowsMathematicsTablesMy Time Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.” ThinkingChildrenAudienceEffectsAdultsPrimaries Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.” IfsAbleOpportunityWonderfulSkillsMathGood MathMath Skills Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.” PeopleThinkingJobsRolesLandAmbassadorsForeign Lands Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.” GivingTryingI CanUseOrderNumbersMessagesPicksConsciousMathematicsMathematicalSymbolism Author:Marcus du Sautoy
