“Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.” GivingJobsLostProductsFinancialCreditObjectivesAgencyAccurateRatingMinnesotans Author:Al Franken
“The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.” WantNeedsHumansDreamLinesDealsEconomyProductsAdvertisingAgencyAssemblyHuman NeedsAdvertising AgenciesAssembly Line Author:Leo Burnett
“There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.” UseMillionsProductsStandardsProgramVulnerableAgencyInsecureDefaultNsaEncryptionSnooping Author:Edward Snowden
“When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.” ThinkingWayGivingBookRealSelfBrainProductsCivilizationReflectionCapacityAgencyCivilizedSelf ReflectionCivilized Society Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.” HelpingSecurityProductsComputerWesternDefeatAgencyAlsOccupationAfghanistanConspiracy80sFilesCiaBin LadenSaudisJihadDatabasesMiscalculationsMujahideen Author:Robin Cook
“Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.” PeopleUsedProductsAdvertisingAgencyApplesComplimentIntegratedAdvertising Agencies Author:John Sculley