“If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.” IfsRoomsJudgingIndustryStaringTiesIdolsLiving RoomMusic IndustryAmerican Idol Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.” IfsWantStillsStuffBitsRoomsSeeingIndustryCreatingGoing To WorkCottages Author:Ricky Gervais
“I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.” ThinkingWritingStuffRoomsNiceIndustryAspectSmall RoomsChecking Out Author:Lauren Mayberry
“Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.” PeoplePersonsWholeLeftRoomsOpinionIndustryComputerFellowsWhole LifeKeith Author:Rick Cook
“Beware of advice. Consider your sources carefully. Look them up. See if you respect what they've made. Get educated. Be informed about who's real and who isn't. Study your craft and your industry, practice all the time, challenge yourself - write things you think you can't, try things you have been told you shouldn't try - leave room for surprises, and learn how to collaborate.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingLooksHas BeensMadeRealChallengesRoomsPracticeStudyAdviceSourceIndustrySurpriseEducatedCraftsChallenge Yourself Author:Karen Walton
“No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsLightKidsTodayEarthTurnsNextEnergyRoomsProgressSeeingEconomicMankindPlanetsTheorySourceDependsIndustryCleanCorruptionGlobal WarmingScareNext YearBansLiving OnTurn OffEnergy SourcesHotter Author:Doug Casey
“It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.” NeedsMayDifferentWarCultureNamesRoomsRaceTechnologyPossibilityPlanetsIndustryToolsMachinesAbsolutesTradeStructureInvestmentDeterminedSettlingEnterpriseMechanicIdenticalPossessingCollectivismElbowsSpaceshipsDifferent CulturesFree EnterpriseTruismInterstellarCapital Investment Book:Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League Source: Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League
“For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.” MayPersonsStillsAgeInterestRoomsGenerationsIndustrySucceedDespairDiscoveryBlindFortuneFormerMotiveSensibleTopicsGood FortuneUnsuccessfulSagacity Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding