“In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.” WayFactsNightCareersConditionsTelevisionAccountsFollowingWoodsChecksMinistersPhrasesFedsTransitionMetalsConcretePlasticDesksAnother WayJuniorsCabinetsExplosivesFed UpExasperationNonlinear Author:Douglas Adams
“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.” EyeRunningMovingFormCareersFourMovementObjectsAll ThingsAccountsHorseTwentiesMadLegsDisappearRapidsVibrationsProfile Author:Giacomo Balla
“People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.” PeopleMadeEnoughCausesCan DoRealizingNumbersMistakeCareersSuccessfulAccountsStartingProbabilityForecastsSuccessful Career Author:Alan Greenspan
“I was working in financing. I was buying and selling stocks for a market-maker on the options floor at the Pacific Stock Exchange. He took me under his wing and was training me to take over his accounts. That's the career I had embarked on, at the time.” CareersTrainingAccountsWingsSellingBuyingMakersPacificFinancingStock ExchangeBuying And SellingSelling Stocks Author:Tim Kang
“My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.” FirstsWellsLongWholeCareersCreativeProductsInternetDegreesAccountsFascinationTrivia Author:John Hodgman
“The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.” WellsChildrenPlayWholeShowsChoicesHoursPayCareersRolesBreakTypeResearchArgumentAccountsMythDiscriminationFactorsRelatedGapsSuggestingPay Gap Author:Laura Bates
“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.” ScienceMotherCareersHard WorkAccountsIndependentOneselfFollowingMarie Author:Irene Joliot-Curie