#ails

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#beijing #china #desires #effort #enter

We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #because #break #commission #commissioners

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. ↗

— Shaun White

#call #date #daughters #e-mails #get

No one likes getting their nails done more than I do. ↗

— Serena Williams

#getting #i #i do #likes #more

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#big #big hair #certain #certain way #corsets

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#concentrate #could #decisive #details #essential

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture. ↗

— Ed Wood

#big #big picture #details #ever #filmmaking

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. ↗

— John Wooden

#big things #details #happen #little #little things

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#chasing #everybody #everything #gear #identical

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#defines #emails #entrepreneur #first #first thing