#cs

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#careers #especially #family #family business #gymnastics

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing. ↗

— David Lloyd

#actually #alan #always #anarchy #anything

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#complex #darwinian #dynamics #evolved #more

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#capable #dynamics #look #model #program

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen? ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#forgot #gonna #happen #how #i

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#after #change #had #i #i think

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#change #coming #even #going #i

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#big picture #focused #forward #i #just

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #clear #direction #dissent