When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren’t being taken very seriously. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That’s my yardstick. Eva Marie Saint Read Quote
By the time I was 4 or 5, I was doing 250 push-ups and sit-ups a day. When I was 6, we bumped it up to about 500 push-ups and sit-ups a day. Some days it could even be 750 or 1,000. Sage Northcutt Read Quote
One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it’s left unaddressed. Jay Weatherill Read Quote
A life cycle approach to food security will imply attention to the nutritional needs of a human being from conception to cremation. The most vulnerable but neglected segment is the first 1,000 days in a child’s life – the period from conception to the age of two, when much of the brain development takes place. M. S. Swaminathan Read Quote
We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it. Donna Brazile Read Quote
I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant to do that kind of effort… like approving time off or submitting time-off requests? We want to really encourage developers to create cool things for Slack. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for me to turn around and tell people that I worked in a male-dominated environment, because it wasn’t. Susie Wolff Read Quote
