“If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.” IfsWantEnoughMightValuesReadingMovementMaterialsEasierCostPaperModelsScientistAccessOnlineInfrastructureClicksBusiness Models Author:John Wilbanks
“The biggest weakness of the green-consumer movement, always, is that we tend to pick the easy-to-do things because that's where we can most readily engage people. It doesn't cost them very much to switch products or whatever it happens to be.” PeopleHappensEasyMovementProductsCostPicksWeaknessGreenConsumers Author:John Elkington
“Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?” PeopleDoeDifferentProblemLyingWhiteAcceptingConditionsMovementFieldsCostActivityWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in some ways the great ideological wars of the 20th century that cost so many lives had to do with whether to have managed economies directed by government or economies directed by the free movement of capital, which is only partially subject to government regulation.” WayWarPlayGovernmentEconomyClearEconomicSubjectsCenturyMovementCostInventionRegulation20th CenturyVitalityIdeologicalGovernment RegulationFree Movement Author:Robert Hass
“We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.” PeopleIfsGivingGovernmentPoliticalGuyRightsTeamMovementBirthCivilizationCostOfficeModelsVoteIdeologyAlternativesCredibilityClashOther GuysPolitical MovementsClash Of Civilizations Author:Edward Snowden
“Every company that manufactures something is causing some damage either to the soil or water or air. Most companies treat these as externalities. But the growing movement of sustainability calls for companies to internalize these costs. Once companies do this, they will have a strong incentive to reduce their carbon footprint.” StrongWaterCompanyGrowingAirMovementCostTreatsDamageSoilSustainabilityCarbonIncentivesFootprintCarbon FootprintExternalities Author:Philip Kotler
“The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.” Has BeensGovernmentJobsAmericaClassMiddleMovementCostCreatingProgramUnionsMiddle ClassDimes Author:Andy Stern