"The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else."

-- June Jordan

#Yield Quotes #Needs Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.”
“The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.”
“In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.”

Source : "Dambisa Moyo's 6 Favorite Books". theweek.com. March 04, 2011.
“Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.”
“I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.”
“To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.”
“The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic acids examined thus far the molar ratios of total purines to total pyrimidines, and also of adenine to thymine and of guanine to cytosine, were not far from 1.”

Source : Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.93, Paul & Company Pub Consortium
“Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.”

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