#nu

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#being #communications #continued #data #driven

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#company #data #gains #incremental #international

We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#also #capital #communications #cost #deployment

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#car #experience #forget #having #hours

I think my numbers speak for themselves. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#i think #numbers #speak #themselves #think

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#brought #else #i #last #minute

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! ↗

— David Eddings

#certain #conscience #gesture #i #like

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#i #just #media #most #nothing