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Too Quotes by James Surowiecki
- Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things…
- Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task,…
- The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that…
- As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't…
- Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data…
- In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing…
- In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the…
- Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in…
- Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's…
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are… — Robert Asprin
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson