Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
Donald Kaufman: [delighted] I can't believe I got shot. Isn't that fucked up?
Donald Kaufman: Hey, Charles. I pitched my script to mom. Charlie Kaufman: Don't say pitch.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
The personal inevitably trumps the political, and the erotic trumps all: We will remember that Cleopatra slept with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony long after we have forgotten what she accomplished in doing so, that she sustained a vast, rich, densely...
Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.
When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.
If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.
With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.
