James Surowiecki Quotes

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 innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

James Surowiecki

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I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

Andy Grove

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Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Michael Heizer

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I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'

Amrita Acharia

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It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

Robert Fisk

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Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

Russell Pearce

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I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

Josephine de La Baume

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I try to go home to Missouri every couple of months. I do that because I like my family, of course, but my mom doesn't know who Carine Roitfeld is. And as much as that horrifies me, it's a good way to keep your feet on the ground.

Derek Blasberg

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The secret is that I am Italian.

Dennis Christopher

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Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

Antony Beevor

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We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

Peter Singer

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