"Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives."

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Source : "Wikipedia and Beyond". Interview with Katherine Mangu-Ward, reason.com. June 2007.

Jimmy Wales

#People Quotes #Doe Quotes #Incentives Quotes

“A lot of people don't know if Denmark is a country or a cheese.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1850). “The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.129
“My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.”
“The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.”

Source : Naum Gabo (1957). “Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays”
“It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.”
“When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.”
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
“I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.”

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