“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.” MadeKidsFacesSecretRecordsAliveStreetsRocksBandMachinesPaidGuitarDebtHungryContactRock N RollFlashUnseenBladesHustleHunted Author:Bruce Springsteen
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.” PeopleIfsWantBigsJobsFilmWorstTruth IsMachinesPaidIncrediblesCraftsDisrespectfulCogs Author:Paddy Considine
“" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."” WellsStatesUnitedUnited StatesMachinesPaidIndependentShoesCorporationsBusinessmanLicenseMotorAutomobileDealerCraftsmanGeneral MotorsCobblersRetainers Author:Paul A. Baran
“There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.” ResponsibilityDutyMachinesPaidBillsVerbsInsignificanceIrregular Verbs Author:W. H. Auden
“Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.” IfsWayDoeWholeProcessAttentionBreakMachinesPaidDialoguePay AttentionRanEngagedOur ThoughtsBreaking DownThought Process Author:David Bohm
“I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.” ThinkingWantedWaitingMinutesMachinesPaidBreatheRingsAnswering Machines Book:Darkly Dreaming Dexter Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.” MadeHardWorkPlansWeekMonthsCostMachinesPaidDown AndAverage Author:Rose Schneiderman