#service

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#effectively #great #his #how #idiosyncrasies

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water. ↗

— Susan George

#always #around #because #book #bottle

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like. ↗

— Susan George

#development #enterprises #initiatives #intensive #jobs

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#because #believe #better #ever #finer

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#free #free will #future #her #ideal

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#geriatric #memorial #parties #services #set

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. ↗

— David Mamet

#calling #dead #everybody #more #morning

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#call #expect #inferior #lazy #reckon