“Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.” ShouldIdeasRunningPartyGoneRecordsRaisedBillionsNo IdeaLabourLabour PartyTreasurer Author:David Cameron
“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.” PeopleKnowsFeelsCareRunningPassionGrowsLosesBusinessCompanyVisionCreativeFiveMiddleProductsManagementDollarsBillionsThings To DoRight ThingLayersInherentEntityWho CaresCreative PeopleInsertMiddle Management Author:Steve Jobs
“The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%.” RunningPurposeMilitaryStructureBillionsFranceCorporateAgencyCia Author:Jerry Brown
“Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want” ThinkingKnowsWantDoeRunningLawAsksLaughingHeardDesignFoundationBillionsHeatCollectionsEnginesEngineersAccuracyMoleculesThermodynamics Author:John Archibald Wheeler
“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.” LittlesSometimesLightRunningTodayEarthEnvironmentAmountSurvivalErrorsSpeciesBillionsNineFiftyCentsNinetyNinety Nine Author:Elizabeth Kolbert