#idly

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. ↗

— Gordon Moore

#changes #current #edge #fundamentals #get

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. ↗

— Gordon Moore

#avoided #engineering #failure #failures #happen

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#big #fed #films #needs #never

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#country #every #industrialized #nearly #now

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#class #confidence #i #i think #losing

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#american #because #being #either #europe

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#book #child #childhood #feel #hear

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#being #bombed #britain #burned #democracy

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

#changes #effect #great #great changes #herself

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California. ↗

— Alice Rivlin

#california #especially #gas #gas prices #going