"[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want."

-- James Black

#Optimistic Quotes #Science Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.142, Simon and Schuster
“There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.”

Source : 1985 The BigMan, ch.1.
“Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press
“Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness â€” as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne â€” and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.”
“A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).”
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
“I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.”
“Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.”

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