#stem

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#along #class #drudge #ever #genius

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#citizen #ecosystem #first #first amendment #life

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#care #comprehensive #considered #endanger #liability

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#everyone #give #giving #good #good place

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#education #educational-system #faces #education

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#deeper #figuring #finding #first #got

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach. ↗

— Tanya R. Liverman

#educational-system #inspiration #poetry #education

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#back #banking #banking system #care #etc

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#builders #came #comprehensive #fathers #founding

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either