All Quotes

The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is great for one-on-one, formal correspondence, there are far better tools for collaboration.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
‐‐ Luis von Ahn

The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.
‐‐ Christopher McCulloch

The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
‐‐ Christina Romer

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.
‐‐ Emily Oster

The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
‐‐ Karl Liebknecht

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
‐‐ Kenneth Rexroth

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
‐‐ David Tudor

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
‐‐ K. Eric Drexler

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.
‐‐ Roger Avary

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
‐‐ John Hume

The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
‐‐ Roy Moore

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.
‐‐ Roger Spottiswoode

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.
‐‐ Psy

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
‐‐ James E. Casey

The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
‐‐ Dallas Willard

The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'
‐‐ James Fenton

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
‐‐ Scott Alexander

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.'
‐‐ Julianna Baggott

The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.
‐‐ Nicholas Stern

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.
‐‐ Robert Asprin

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.
‐‐ Michael Behe

The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
‐‐ Steven Biko

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
‐‐ Roger Penrose

The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.
‐‐ Timothy Olyphant

The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.
‐‐ Jason Scott Lee

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
‐‐ John Lennon

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble.
‐‐ Kenneth Kamler

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
‐‐ Philip K. Dick

The basic work schedule for me is whenever I'm not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it's most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
‐‐ Flannery O'Connor

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
‐‐ Brian Eno

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
‐‐ David Mamet

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.
‐‐ Eric Burdon

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
‐‐ George Washington

The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.
‐‐ Michael J. Saylor

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
‐‐ Dawn Powell