“Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.” ThinkingGamesSpeakGoneComputerProgramChessComplexityCracksTime And Money Author:Wells Tower
“The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.” WayUseProcessGoneGoes OnAmountPeriodsProgramOrganizationDrinkingHeavyBeerPotCocaineCokeGetting High Author:George Carlin
“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.” WorldKindChildrenProblemGrowthWealthGoneEconomicHugeAmountBenefitsSpringProgramManagementInternationalPopulationBlowCorruptionReformConcentrationFundMarvelousEgyptWagesMonetaryPostersArab SpringImfWorld BankConcentration Of Wealth Author:Noam Chomsky
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.” NeedsShouldYearsTwoDoneBigsGovernmentOrderCommunityGoneFiveFailingSolutionsYears AgoProgramShould HaveCrisisDemocratReformFrankMacsMaeCorrupt GovernmentDodd Frank Author:Carly Fiorina
“I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.” IfsThinkingWellsHas BeensGoneProgramTranslationsMoney Well Spent Author:Elliott Colla
“If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into yours. So whatever changes MFAs have made to the culture, it's to the culture as a whole. It can't be pinned down to individual books in a way that some people would like to do.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindMadeBookWholeCultureIndividualCommunityGoneProgramLeaks Author:Chad Harbach
“Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948, I then went to stay with my cousins on Seventeenth Street and enrolled in the program at the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue.” ArtFactsMightSchoolGoneHappenedStreetsProgramCousinAvenuesInstituteArt SchoolMy CousinBuffaloPrivate School Author:Paul Smith
“Having gone through the [Marvel] writer program, I knew Black Panther was in the pipeline and I knew they were big fans of my writing. But I had to compete with the other writers who were put up for it - no one hands out jobs.” WritingHandsBigsJobsBlackGoneFansProgramPipelinePanthersBlack Panther Author:Joe Robert Cole
“All of these years I've been doing my program I was under the impression the Republican Party wanted to beat Democrats. And as the years have gone by, it's become obvious to me that that's not their number one objective.” YearsWantedPartyNumbersGoneRepublicanBeatsProgramDemocratObviousImpressionObjectivesRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.” PeopleShouldIdeasAbleInterestGoneCenturyNeededProgramPaidInnovationLifetimeChinaSolveDebtGreat ThingsGlobal WarmingFund21st CenturyGreat IdeaTransportation Author:Michael Moore
“Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness are we talking about? Not the competitiveness of, say, American-born computer engineers. Adjusted for inflation, their earnings haven't gone anywhere in years. That's in part because American companies have been sending so much of their high-tech work abroad. Bringing more foreign-born engineers here under an expanded H1-B visa program, or a point system for that matter, will just depress wages even further.” IfsNeedsYearsWellsHas BeensMatterBornCompanyTalkingGoneTalentHavensPolicyComputerProgramFundamentalsImmigrationEducatedEngineersDepressingEarningSupporterWagesInflationImportsCompetitivenessVisaWell EducatedImmigration Policy Author:Ronald Reagan
“The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.” MindWellsLongStillsWaitingHoursSpaceHalfGoneAirMinutesBenefitsLong TimeSittingProgramFellowsRadioEightMilesStatementsFlightAviationAirplaneRecallsAstronautStar GazingLashesPadsSitting StillMind BogglingWorth The Wait Author:Robert Crippen
“The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.” IfsLooksDifferentStatesSituationGoneGrowingModernSecurityProgramChinaWelfareRetirementStampsWelfare StateFood StampsGreat SocietyLbj Author:Michele Bachmann