"If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again."

-- Steven Chu

#Technology Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Air Quotes

“Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.”

Source : "Sanity and Solitude: Cogent Ramblings of a Lone Aesthetic". Book by Bob Spencer, p. 81, 2012.
“You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.”

Source : "Beanie Sigel keeping spirits high despite legal problems" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 08, 2003.
“Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.”
“My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.”
“I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.”
“Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.”

Source : Robert Herjavec (2010). “Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life”, p.13, HarperCollins Canada
“A man of refined taste and judgment.”
“Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the story of a hunt and of a seduction.”

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