“I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.” YearsMeanStoriesPoliticalIssuesViolenceGrewGrew UpIrelandPolitical Violence Author:Neil Jordan
“My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.” LittlesDifferentEndsStoriesFilmBitsMovementNormalLittle BitProgramConceptionTrunks Author:Neil Jordan
“The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.” FirstsJobsOffersUniversityGenuineAcademicWisconsinWisconsin Weather Author:Stephen Cole Kleene
“I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.” IfsKnowsHardPhilosophyAbleBeliefTheoryProveClaimsPhilosophicalHesitationProve It Author:Stephen Cole Kleene
“Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.” UnderstandingHeard Author:George Armitage Miller
“The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the long and short vowels are confused. In the end we can get roughly similar sounds but not precisely the same ones. Unless we use Sanskrit, it is hardly possible to differentiate the long and short sounds. The purpose of retaining the source materials, indeed, lies here.” LongEndsUseLyingPurposeSoundMaterialsSourceOriginalsProfoundMysteriousChineseConfusedMantrasDifferentiateRetainingVowelsSanskrit Author:Kukai
“Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.” PeopleWorldWellsMeanProblemYoungSocialCausesImaginationLibertyProgressActivityBenefitsResourcesUltimateSolveSpeedFuelHopefulRegulationSpiritedBrake Author:Julian Simon
“There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important of all—human beings. . . . [An] increase in the price of peoples’ services is a clear indication that people are becoming more scarce even though there are more of us.” PeopleHumansImportantHuman BeingsClearBecomingResourcesIncreaseAbundanceTrendsIndicationScarceBecoming MoreScarcity Author:Julian Simon