“I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.” IfsMeanUsedPiecesMajorsPercentEightLegislation1960sFilibuster Author:Tom Udall
“When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.” PeopleIfsImportantDifferentLinesPiecesWalkingCreatingMajorsHarmonyImportant ThingsComposerMinorsUp And DownSchubertTriads Author:Elliott Carter
“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.” FirstsDoeProblemJobsIndividualGivenGoalPiecesParticularGratitudeMajorsSolutionsUltimateMathematicsMethodAssumingSimplicityCreditSolveAdmireEfficientMathematicianObserversEleganceUltimate GoalAccolades Author:Keith Devlin
“Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.” WellsMayMightTermPayStrugglePiecesSecurityMajorsPicksChineseScoreNational SecurityNsaPay The PriceMolesBeijingSnowden Author:Arthur L. Herman
“A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.” PeopleIfsYearsMayPersonsMadeTodayEasyDecisionPiecesKeysCallingMajorsHundredYears AgoMakersSatisfyingMultipleDecision Makers Author:Brian Tracy
“Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper.” ThinkingLittlesBodyCompanyPiecesPaperMajorsOwnersUnusualLowestShareholdersBuffettTurnover Author:Charlie Munger
“I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about how to go about in the record business you would get 5 years ago is no longer valid. Everything is changing very rapidly and there is an increased sense of anger and despair among artists that are not major-selling megastars.” IfsKnowsYearsArtistRecordsPiecesAdviceRight NowDespairMajorsModelsYears AgoSelling Author:Olof Arnalds
“The intelligence community, in particular the FBI, have been sounding alarms about this for more than a year. So to argue that suddenly we have to do this because of the San Bernardino case doesn't really pass the straight-face test. I mean, they've been talking about this. And to say, well, it will only apply to this case, that just - that doesn't wash. This is a major piece of public policy.” YearsWellsMeanHas BeensFacesCommunityTalkingCasesPiecesPolicyParticularMajorsTestsArguingAlarmsFbiPublic PolicyIntelligence CommunityStraight Face Author:Angus King
“Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways."” IfsKnowsWayTryingPersonsTwoDifferentUsedSongForceCausesCompanyRecordsSawsPiecesDiversityMajorsShotsAlbumsRapHandleDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsTopicsMarketplaceRecord CompaniesSinglesRap Music Author:Chuck D
“I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesLosesPiecesWindMajorsSaddenedI Feel Sad Author:Hugh Hefner