Hyperelaboration Quotes

#1. Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#2. Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.

John McAfee

#3. Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

Stokely Carmichael

#4. Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

Paul Tillich

#5. Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

Ruth First

#6. It seemed like no time at all had passed, like it was summer again and she and Cord were playing their games - and yet everything was different. It was like an echo of that time, a little less sharp, a little less thrilling. They had both changed too much.

Katharine McGee

#7. Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Daniel Goleman

#8. My father was a manual worker.

Diane Abbott

#9. It has happened, women have helped their husbands, sacrificed their whole lives, never thought about themselves. Their surrender, their devotion to their lovers has been total. In this totality, they have achieved before their lover has.

Rajneesh

#10. Why didn't the Eskimo keep it?" she asked, looking at the Magnet with interest. "He got tired of being loved and longed for some one to hate him. So he gave me the Magnet and the very next day a grizzly bear ate him." "Wasn't he sorry then?" she inquired. "He didn't say," replied the shaggy man,

L. Frank Baum

#11. Can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what you want because I'm me.

Pearl Jam

#12. I didn't choose to be an actress.

Francesca Annis