Embedding Quotes

• The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity

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  Douglass North

  Opportunity   Men   Rights  

  4103

• ...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

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  Michael Martin Hammer

  Technology   Starting Over   Use  

  "Reengineering work: don't automate, obliterate". Harvard Business Review, Volume 68, No.4, pp. 104, 1990.

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• ...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this DNA evidence and scientific laws governing UI as premises, we are able to develop sound, logical deductions. This leads us to the following conclusion: the God of the Bible exists and He is responsible for originating and embedding Universal Information into biological life.

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  Werner Gitt

  Dna   Law   Atheism  

  255

• When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger.

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  Lysa TerKeurst

  Memories   Stronger   Original Thought  

  4741

• I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.

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  Ashley Greene

  Strong   Quality   Roles  

  970

• I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

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  Cathy O'Neil

  Agendas   Algorithms   Embedding  

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

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  Diablo Cody

  Movie   Successful   Epic  

  4805

• The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

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  Alain de Botton

  Practice   Ideas   Everyday  

  5159

• Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.

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  Wilson Bryan Key

  Strong   Sex   Emotional  

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