#npr

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects. ↗

— Howard Carter

#being #crowded #large #made #objects

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#evolution #first #first time #history #influenza

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#excellent #fan #i #ideas #many

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail. ↗

— Donald Cram

#career #columbus #compounds #could #felt

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#been #focused #house #last #legislation

Being unprepared heightens nerves. ↗

— James Galway

#heightens #nerves #unprepared

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#bear #broader #brought #companies #consequences

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#gather #grows #information #sleep #unprofitable

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#cannot #carry #economy #forever #fund

This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#free #free market #how #ideas #looks