“Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.” JobsAreasGrayGray Area Author:Jodie Foster
“It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.” TogetherJobsCultureIndustryAreasDefenseValleysSiliconSilicon ValleyBay AreaCounter Culture Author:Erik Qualman
“One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.” DifferentJobsJoyLiteratureHugeAmountAreasGreat JoyInvestigating Author:Stephen Daldry
“A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.” PeopleIfsLooksImportantHappensRunningTodayJobsLawBehaviorConceptsAreasMachinesCriminalsSoftwareSci FiLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:Jose Padilha
“I supported Barack Obama originally. I supported him for reelection and the alternative of a Mitt Romney is very, very clear to everybody. And I think the president has done a good job in a number of areas. But one area that has concerned me from day one has been his reliance on Wall Street type people in terms of financial matters.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMatterDoneJobsPresidentTermNumbersClearStreetsWallTypeAreasConcernedFinancialBarackAlternativesGood JobRelianceRomneyReelection Author:Bernie Sanders
“We want players here who are going to be here for the long term. Players who buy houses here, who settle in the area. It's a brilliant club, great supporters but we want players to come here to be part of that community rather than being ships in the night having a last pay day at Ipswich... we want to build for the future rather than do a quick fix because I think it's going to be a long-term job.” ThinkingWantLongJobsLastsNightHouseTermCommunityPayPlayerAreasClubsBrilliantShipsSettlingLong TermSupporterQuick Fixes Author:Paul Jewell
“With conglomerates selling companies to liquidators, who close down plants and move to non-union areas, it's about time progressive union leaders step in to stop such job-losing tactics... ESOP should become a part of future bargaining packages!” ShouldWisdomJobsMovingPoliticsCompanyLeaderStepsEconomyLosingAreasUnionsPlantSellingLiberalismProgressiveTacticsPackagesBargainingEsops Author:Tom Colicchio
“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindPersonsIdeasHelpingGovernmentMightJobsCertainHoursFiveFourWeekOfficeCapableAreasGood IdeasDistributionMonstrousReceiptsGovernment Jobs Author:Grace Slick