“I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.” PeoplePersonsArtBookFilmNightLove IsCreativeTvsIndustryFunctionEvery NightCreative PeopleFacets Author:Guy Oseary
“Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.” NeedsYearsMatterReasonDoneMightLeftViewsSpecialFashionDesignMaterialsDevelopmentIndustryComputerYears AgoFunctionIncludingUniversityObviousContributionConsiderationDigitalEngineeringDomainPublic Domain Author:Maurice Wilkes
“I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social Chapter but not within the treaty and without Britain's participation. It sets a vital precedent. For an enlarged Community can only function if we build in flexibility of that kind... John Major deserves high praise for ensuring at Maastricht that we would not have either a Single Currency or the absurd provisions of the Social Chapter forced upon us: our industry, workforce, and national prosperity will benefit as a result.” IfsKindGovernmentMovingSocialCommunityResultsPayIndustryAchievementBenefitsMajorsDeserveFunctionPraiseProsperityAbsurdBritainChaptersCurrencyParticipationFlexibilityProvisionTributeTreatiesPrecedentWorkforceMoving AheadPersuading Author:Margaret Thatcher
“The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.” KnowsFirstsWellsSchoolResponsibilityIndustryTrainingFunctionAssumingPreparationTaking ResponsibilityAbsolutely Nothing Author:Peter Drucker
“If we speak about fundamental things, regulation of the rate is actually the function of the main regulator, namely the function of the Central Bank. And it should think of how the economy and industry react, but also of its fundamental tasks in order to ensure the stability of the rate.” IfsThinkingShouldOrderSpeakEconomyIndustryTasksFunctionFundamentalsRateStabilityRegulationCentral BanksRegulators Author:Vladimir Putin
“Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.” NeedsGivingSocialPleasureConsciousnessRichExampleIndustryFunctionLuxuryMultitudesOrganismsIncentivesNo SympathyIdlers Author:Ludwig von Mises
“A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition."” NeedsLooksSaidPerfectNumbersSawsIndustryDemandModelsEconomicsFunctionInfiniteCompetitionUniversityFirmChicagoFormulasColleaguesEconomistElasticityPerfect Competition Author:Matthew Rabin
“Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.” NeedsHumansWholeGovernmentChurchFailingIndustryFunctionInstitutionsReconstructionHuman Freedom Book:Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Human Nature and the Social Order