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Mark Goddard quote: "Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend..."

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

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In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briancon! They have conferred on the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for them... Victor Hugo
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be. Kurt Vonnegut
How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It") Mark Strand
Aeschylus quote: "For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail..."
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. Aeschylus
Mason Cooley quote: "Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day."
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day. Mason Cooley
Charlie Kaufman quote: "I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about..."
I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them. Charlie Kaufman
Winston Churchill quote: "This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being..."
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read. Winston Churchill
Sam Mendes quote: "I like throwing snowballs at small children."
I like throwing snowballs at small children. Sam Mendes
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there. Eric Clapton
I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me! Emily Watson
John Kenneth Galbraith quote: "The process by which banks create money is so simple that the..."
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. John Kenneth Galbraith
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. Christopher Lasch
MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. Eddie Izzard
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. Lindsey Buckingham
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. John Hull