"The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."

Industry, Safety, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

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"The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."

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"The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Industry, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Industry, Economics, Progress, Labor

"There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light."

Steven Magee, British Author

Industry, Incompetence, Truth, Light

"But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

Industry, First

"I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?"

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Industry, Business, Marketing, Manipulation, Truth

"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

Industry, Prosperity

"Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission."

Stewart Udall, American Politician

Industry, Mission

"The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."

Bill Gates, American Businessman

Industry, Safety, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

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"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

Leadership

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

Technology

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

Reflection

"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."

Wisdom

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

Learning

"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."

Reflection

"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting."

Humor

"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."

Wisdom

"Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear."

Innovation

"Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing."

Education