“Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.” PeopleGovernmentDifferencesNumbersGrewSpendingFactorsAdministrationRecallsFederal GovernmentEmployedContractingFederal Spending Author:Thomas Frank
“Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.” ShouldYearsPlayFactsPoliticalIndividualDifferencesStudyGroupsMediaEvidenceEnvironmentalPassingPassingsFactorsExplanationContributionAppropriateResolutionAssociationIdeologicalPolitically CorrectEnvironmental Factors Author:J. Philippe Rushton
“This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.” IfsThinkingMenWantMadeFactsFilmDifferencesBoysHe ManFactorsRelevant Author:Omar Sharif
“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.” ImportantStatesPoliticalDifferencesUnitedPracticeTechnologyUnited StatesPolicyInnovationManagementFactorsExplanationJapanTrendsEngineeringParadigmHigh Technology Book:Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions Source: Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions
“In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.” IfsTwoIdeasDifferentDifferencesNumbersPlansBuildingCrossesNuclearFactorsBombsEnterpriseCommitteesSuggestionsSectionsUnpredictableTheoreticalMeasurementCalculationsAtomic BombParamount Author:Emilio G. Segre
“Technology has certainly reduced performance differences among drivers. Whereas a talented driver could get a half-second out of every lap in the past, nowadays talent makes up for only about one or two tenths of a second. But the driver is still the key factor.” StillsTwoPastDifferencesHalfTechnologyTalentKeysPerformancesFactorsDriversLap Author:Michael Schumacher