“We've lost an edge that we used to have in scientific innovation applications to goods to be sold. In many ways, that is also changing in the electronic field. Almost all of the materials that we use now are of advanced technology, I have an iPad and also an iPod, both of which are made in China. Although we have designed them here with Apple, for instance, they are manufactured overseas.” WayMadeUseUsedLostTechnologyFieldsMaterialsInnovationEdgesChinaInstanceApplesGoodsApplicationIpodsIpadsAdvanced TechnologyMade In China Author:Jimmy Carter
“When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.” IfsLongWinningForceFieldsAmountBattleLong TimeArmyEdgesDullProvisionTransportationSuppliesBluntInsufficient Author:Sun Tzu
“Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.” ProblemLyingAnswersEconomicFieldsEthicsUltimateEdgesShadeSociologyExaggerationEconomic ProblemsSharp Edges Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.” WayLooksMayNightAirBloodFrontsFieldsBreathsEdgesDrivingDustApplesRetiringUniformsBugsPerilLawnsStreaksCrippledAdmiralBarges Book:The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber
“I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.” FireFieldsColdRomanticEdgesIceBurning Author:Meat Loaf
“People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.” PeopleDoneSidesCitiesFiveFieldsEdgesMilesRealisingUrbanCentreLeeds Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.” ShowsNightDarkExistenceFieldsWinterEdgesStuckSnowUselessCoveredStakesWinter Night Author:Franz Kafka
“When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.” IfsWayTryingHardRememberUsedFoundForgetFieldsMaterialsEdgesWorking ItContinuityHunches Author:Dorothea Lange