“Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.” KindHappenedInfluencePressureFinancialCensorshipRubbishSponsorsFinancial Pressure Author:Morley Safer
“The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.” YearsCultureCreativeHappenedTelevisionShotsYears AgoHollywoodFinancialPresenter Author:Terry Wogan
“We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.” SaidBigsBusinessHappenedHugeGrewDown AndFinancialSizeSatVentureDoughOctopus Author:Walt Disney
“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.” PeopleWellsImportantPoliticalReadingRolesEconomyOur LivesFailingHappenedEconomicMilitaryInformationComfortableMachinesIntelligentFinancialMedicalTitlesOddPhenomenonArtificial IntelligenceArticlesArtificialPhasesIntegratedIntelligent Machines Book:The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
“Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook, Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, high-speech broadband, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.” WorldBigsLastsChangeHappenedCrisisFinancialCloudsConnectedDecadesDataPostsInfancyIphoneAppsFinancial CrisisWirelessIpadsCellphoneWiringSkype Author:Thomas Friedman
“One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was interesting. Many of you probably don't remember what happened after the South Sea Bubble, which caused an enormous financial contraction, and a lot of pain. They banned publicly traded stock in England for decades.” FirstsBigsPainRememberCoursesInterestingHappenedSeaHugeEnglandSouthFinancialDecadesEnormousHorribleBubblesBannedAftermathContractions Author:Charlie Munger
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.” PeopleIfsMadeRunningMistakeEconomyHappenedMovementIndustrySmartFundamentalsFinancialCreditCollapseFreezeBankruptcySmart PeopleDeregulation Author:Bill O'Reilly
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulation works fine in industries which do not pervade the economy. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.” PeopleIfsMadeSaidRunningMistakeEconomyHappenedMovementFineIndustrySmartFundamentalsFinancialAppearanceCreditCollapseFreezeViewpointsBankruptcySmart PeopleDeregulation Author:Richard Posner
“When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'” YearsMayLongSometimesMotherHappenedMomComfortableMovedSevenFinancialMy MomApartment Author:LeBron James
“Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.” KnownHappenedDemandCrisisFinancialPersistSevereEconomistShortageGreat DepressionFinancial Crisis Author:Bob Frank