"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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"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

"Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position."

Politics

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

Efficiency

"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important."

Innovation

"In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?"

Health

"The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster."

Health

"By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down."

Health

"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."

Iraq

"I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it."

Happiness

"I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has."

Governance