“science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.” MindLongWholeFactsPastScienceValuesIndividualResultsDependsLong TimeResearchDiscoveryEmbraceComplexesEnterpriseCollectivesExceptionInventor Book:The Simone Weil Reader Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.” ReasonEnoughWisdomBehindsToo MuchDependsFolksEnterpriseFree EnterpriseLag Author:William Greider
“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.” PeopleMindHumansValuesEnergySpaceBrainCreativeTalentDependsAmountDemandSmartCommitmentIncreaseAvailableProportionEnterpriseHuman MindScareCreative PeopleSmart PeopleComputingTime And EnergyVery SmartBrain Power Author:Steven Weber
“Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.” MenDependsEnterpriseOne ManSuccess Or Failure Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.” MenScienceTurnsBeliefNaturalLevelsQualityKnownColdDependsResearchDiscoveryScientistPassionateHandleEnterpriseAbandonedImaginativePromotionMisleadUndertakingsEndeavourScientific ResearchEnquiryLaymanDispassionate Author:Peter Medawar
“The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation.” GivingSelfTodayPartyExistenceRightsDependsCapitalismOrganizationWorkersChineseEnterpriseLabourCommunistCapitalistDominationCommunist Party Author:Jacques Ranciere