Creviced Bedrock Quotes

#1. This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.

Michael Lewis

#2. Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient.

Bob Frank

#3. Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

Dev Hynes

#4. Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

Rudyard Kipling

#5. A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

Paul Dirac

#6. When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage.

Eric Ripert

#7. To the World He Was a Loser, But to Me He Was the World.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. The mentality of who is your uncle - an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan's internal conflicts.

Duop Chak Wuol