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The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.


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STEVEN SQUYRES The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ...
STEVEN MAGEE The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl...
STEVEN MOFFAT I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,...
STEVEN MAGEE The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ...
STEVEN JAMES Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...
STEVEN ERIKSON Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
STEVEN WEINBERG Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus com...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me... I...
STEVEN MOFFAT The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronom...
STEVEN MAGEE The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical...
STEVEN MAGEE Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
STEVEN MAGEE When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet...
STEVEN KOTLER