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Profit

Profit generally is the making of gain in business activity for the benefit of the owners of the business. The word comes from Latin meaning "to make progress", is defined in two different ways, one for economics and one for accounting.

 * CONTENT : A - F, G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links

Quotes

 * Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author

A - F

 * If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
 * Francis Bacon, Ornamenta Rationalia.

 * O proud philanthropist, your hope is vain
 * To get by giving what you lost by gain.
 * Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (1911), Volume 8, p. 349.

 * There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.
 * La Bruyère, Characters, H. Van Laun, trans. (London: 1885) “Of The Gifts of Fortune,” #58

 * The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Signs of the Times (1829).

 * Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future catastrophe.
 * Noam Chomsky on the COVID-19 pandemic, in an interview with C.J. Polychroniou, Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism (April 1, 2020),

 * We may add that focus on maximizing profits is also "not always consistent" with the hope for "the survival of humanity," to borrow the phrase of a leaked memo from, [the U.S.’s] largest bank, warning that "the survival of humanity" is at risk on our current course, including the bank's own investments in fossil fuels. Thus, canceled a profitable sustainable energy project because there’s more profit to be made in destroying life on Earth. ExxonMobil refrained from doing so, because [it] had never opened such a project in the first place, having made more rational calculations of profitability. And rightly so, according to neoliberal doctrine. As Milton Friedman and other neoliberal luminaries have instructed us, the task of corporate managers is to maximize profits. Any deviation from this moral obligation would shatter the foundations of "civilized life."
 * Noam Chomsky, in an interview with C.J. Polychroniou, Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism (April 1, 2020),

 * The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.
 * Patrick Dixon, Building a Better Business, 2005, p. 88.

G - L

 * … actions whose motives he cannot understand—that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
 * André Gide, The Immoralist, R. Howard trans., p. 122.

 * He is like all the rest: a slave to profit, a master only to his bent for negotiating the best deal.
 * Franz Grillparzer, Libussa (1872).

 * What the English call “comfortable” is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.
 * Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, S. Dyde, trans. (1896), § 191.

 * The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things. We must get together. The best thing humans can have going for them is each other. We have each other. We must reject everything which humiliates us. Humans are not objects of consumption. We must develop an absolute priority of humans ahead of profit — any humans ahead of any profit. Then we will survive. … Together.
 * Frank Herbert, "Introduction" to New World or No World (1970).

 * Reflective apologists for war at the present day all take it religiously. It is a sort of sacrament. It's profits are to the vanquished as well as to the victor; and quite apart from any question of profit, it is an absolute good, we are told, for it is human nature at its highest dynamic.
 * William James, in The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)

 * For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, but suffer the loss of his soul?
 * Jesus, Gospel of Mark

 * I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.
 * Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)

M - R

 * For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic … often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.
 * C. Wright Mills, The Causes of World War Three, 1960.

 * I don't think that corporations are these big bogeymen that a lot of people paint them to be. …  A corporation is a group of people, and if you want to come together for profit or nonprofit, that's your business—whatever you want to do.
 * Krist Novoselic, interviewed by Nick Gillespie, "Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems", ReasonTV (19 June 2014), 15:30–15:37, 17:10–17:20.

 * It is no longer economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest.
 * Benito Mussolini, Four Speeches on the Corporate State, Laboremus, Roma (1935) p. 38

 * The love of gain, which is a large, incalculably large, element in every soul, when once applied to the desire for God, will bless the man who has it.
 * Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity, Chapter 18.

 * When a firm makes a profit this means that productive factors have been properly employed and corresponding human needs have been duly satisfied.
 * Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, 1991.

 * Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
 * Proverbs 1:19, Bible in Basic English

 * For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
 * Concert hall
 * And echoes with the sound of salesmen.
 * Rush, "The Spirit of Radio"

S - Z

 * When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.
 * George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, “Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections,” Complete Works (Oxford:1912), p. 253.

 * Cui prodest scelus, is fecit.
 * Who profits by a sin has done the sin.
 * Seneca the Younger, Medea, lines 500-501 (Medea)
 * Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.
 * Sophocles, ''Oedipus at Colonus', l:388.

 * Spend time on excellence, and love the right, And don’t let shameful profit master you.
 * Theognis, Elegies, Dorothea Wender, trans., 465.

 * In aristocracies, it is not precisely work that is scorned, but work with a view to profit. Work is glorious when ambition or virtue alone makes one undertake it. … The idea of gain remains distinct from that of work. No matter that they are joined in fact. … In democratic societies, these two ideas are, on the contrary, always visibly united.
 * Tocqueville, Democracy in America, H. Mansfield, trans. (Chicago: 2000), p. 525.

 * Private property … has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, ¶ 15.

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Ethics

Ethics (from Ancient Greek ethikos) is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.

A

 * There is no ethical idea which it [dharma] has not stressed, put in its most ideal and imperative form, enforced by teaching, injunction, parable, artistic creation, formative examples. Truth, honour, loyalty, fidelity, courage, chastity, love, long-suffering, self-sacrifice, harmlessness, forgiveness, compassion, benevolence, beneficence are its common themes, are, in its view, the very stuff of a right human life, the essence of man's dharma. Buddhism, with its high and noble ethics, Jainism, with its austere ideal of self-conquest, Hinduism, with its magnificent examples of all sides of the Dharma, are not inferior in ethical teaching and practice to any religion or system, but rather take the highest rank and have had the strongest effective force.
 * Aurobindo, Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo: The Renaissance in India, 1997: 148). quoted from    Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.

 * Aristotle filled out further details on the foundation laid by Plato, founded the disciplines of logic and metaphysics, elaborated individual and social ethics, and discussed fundamental issues of . The later systems centered around the attempt to find satisfaction in human living by self-control, refined enjoyment, or suspension of judgment of ultimate problems.

 * The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues.
 * Joxe Azurmendi, interview in Deia (1 September 2012)

B

 * “When someone asks for the ethics tape, we know they’ve already decided to invest. They just want some reassurance so they can feel good about it, too. That's the thing you learn about values, Jones: they're what people make up to justify what they did. Did you take business ethics in college?” “Yes.” “They teach you people’s behavior is guided by their values, right? That’s a load of crap. When you watch people like we do, you find out it’s the other way around. Look, I believe in what Alpha does, I really do. But do I worry about whether every little thing we do is ethical? No, because you can rationalize anything as ethical. You talk to a criminal—a tax dodger, a serial killer, a child abuser—and every one of them will justify their actions. They’ll explain to you, totally seriously, why they had to do what they did. Why they’re still good people. That’s the thing: when people talk about the importance of ethics, they never include themselves. The day anyone, anywhere, admits that they personally are unethical, I’ll start taking that whole issue seriously.”
 * Max Barry, Company (2006), ISBN 0-385-51439-5, pp. 111-112

 * She takes a deep breath. “Whoo. Okay. Tell me how you justify buying a new pair of shoes.” “What?” “When there are starving people in Africa, what kind of person spends two hundred bucks on shoes? See, once you buy into that paradigm, it’s a bottomless pit. You can never feel good about yourself while there’s anybody in the world poor or hungry, which there always is, Jones, and has been since the dawn of time, so you feel guilty and hypocritical all the time. I'm consistent. I admit I don’t care. You want me to reassure you that Alpha is ethical, but I'm not going to do it, because ethics is bullshit. It’s the spin we put on our lives to justify what we do. I say, be big enough to live without rationalizations.”
 * Max Barry, Company (2006), ISBN 0-385-51439-5, p. 148

 * The most optimistic ethics have all begun by emphasizing the element of failure involved in the condition of man; without failure, no ethics; for a being who, from the very start, would be an exact co-incidence with himself, in a perfect plenitude, the notion of having-to-be would have no meaning. One does not offer an ethics to a God. It is impossible to propose any to man if one defines him as nature, as something given. The so-called psychological or empirical ethics manage to establish themselves only by introducing surreptitiously some flaw within the manthing which they have first defined.
 * Simone de Beauvoir, in The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)

 * We have all learned to become sensitive to the physical environment … Perhaps fewer of us are sensitive to what we might call the moral or ethical environment. This is the surrounding climate of ideas about how to live. It determines what we find acceptable or unacceptable, admirable or contemptible. It determines our conception of when things are going well and when they are going badly.
 * Simon Blackburn, Being Good (2001)

 * We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good conscience … Ethics is disturbing. We are often vaguely uncomfortable when we think of such things as exploitation of the world's resources, or the way our comforts are provided by the miserable labour conditions of the third world … '''Racists and sexists, like antebellum slave owners in America, always have to tell themselves a story that justifies their system.
 * Simon Blackburn, Being Good (2001)

 * An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.
 * Simon Blackburn, Being Good (2001)

 * The ethical decision is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences — afraid that even the honorable choice could result in harm or loss or sorrow — that’s when ethics are involved.
 * Henry W. Bloch, in The Importance of Ethics

 * There is one view that we can allow these AI [tools] to deal with data and analytics and we let people deal with the caring, and the empathy, and the emotional aspects of care, which I think is absolutely critical... What if technology is capable of high touch engagement? What if AI was also social and emotionally intelligent?  For me when I talk about emotional engagement, it’s not just about great user experience with technology... It is about deeper human engagement to enable transformative change in people’s lives... We have the world of design and we have the world of AI and right now those two aren’t built top of each other... But these have to come together. So we, through a lot of psychology, understand how people are thinking about experiencing new technology.
 * Cynthia Breazeal quoted in Is emotional support part of AI's future in healthcare?  by Laura Lovett, Healthcare IT News,  (10 November 2018)

 * We need to be thinking more deeply around ethics ... particularly with AI with children.
 * Cynthia Breazeal quoted in Teachers, the Robots Are Coming. But That's Not a Bad Thing, by By Kevin Bushweller, Education Week,  (7 January 2020)

C

 * Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
 * Jean Cocteau, in Diary of an Unknown (1988)

D

 * Ethics is the triumph of freedom over.
 * Simone de Beauvoir,

 * Strong ethics keep corporations healthy. Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.
 * Patrick Dixon, in Building a Better Business (2005), p. 131

E

 * I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a "matter-of-fact" habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. … The frightful dilemma of the political world situation has much to do with this sin of omission on the part of our civilization. Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for humanity.
 * Albert Einstein, in "The Need for Ethical Culture" celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Ethical Culture Society (5 January 1951)

 * One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
 * Albert Einstein, quoted in Einstein's God — Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God (1997) by Robert N. Goldman

F

 * Psychoanalysis ... should find a place among the methods whose aim is to bring about the highest ethical and intellectual development of the individual.
 * Sigmund Freud, Letter number 80 to James Jackson Putnam, March 30, 1914, in James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis: Letters between Putnam and Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, William James, Sandor Ferenczi, and Morton Prince, 1877-1917 (Harvard University Press: 1971), p. 170

K

 * The ethical as such is the universal, and as the universal it applies to everyone, which from another angle means that it applies at all times. It rests immanent in itself, has nothing outside itself that is its τέλος but is itself the τέλος for everything outside itself, and when the ethical has absorbed this into itself, it goes not further. The single individual, sensately and psychically qualified in immediacy, is the individual who has his τέλος in the universal, and it is his ethical task continually to express himself in this, to annul his singularity in order to become the universal. As soon as the single individual asserts himself in his singularity before the universal, he sins, and only by acknowledging this can he be reconciled again with the universal. ... Faith [in contrast to the ethical] is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal ... so that after having been in the universal he as the single individual isolates himself as higher than the universal.
 * Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843), as translated by H. Hong and E. Hong (Princeton University Press: 1983), pp. 54-55

M

 * It's never a matter of ethics versus pragmatism; it's a question of which informs the other. Humans have shown themselves capable of almost unlimited imagination and innovation—qualities that could be said to define human beings. People have used this capacity to do both great good and great harm. The point is that when humans set their minds to doing something, it's frequently possible. It makes sense to first ask what people want to do and why, from an ethical standpoint, and then get to the pragmatic how-to questions. The very process of asking what's right is how people fill out ethics in praxis, to meet new demands and dilemmas, new social conditions and contexts. Anarchism, then, brings an egalitarian ethics out into the world, making it transparent, public, and shared. It maintains an ethical orientation, while continually trying to put such notions into practice, as flawed as the effort might be. When other people come into contact with this ethical compass, they will hopefully "get it" and incorporate the same values into their lives, because it works. It offers directionality to political involvement and buttresses people's efforts to remake society. It turns surviving into thriving. That's the crucial difference between a pragmatic versus ethical impulse: people, in cooperative concert, qualitatively transform one another's lives.
 * Cindy Milstein,

 * "Ethics" isn't some fixed entity but rather the continual questioning of what it means to be a good person in a good society. It draws from the classical triad of philosophy's aspirations: the good, the true, and the beautiful.
 * Cindy Milstein,

P

 * After three and a half centuries I have found, for an empirical ethics, no better starting axiom than this: cruelty and evil are virtually synonyms. Human ethical teachers have insisted over the ages that a cruel act is an evil act, and men on the whole endorse the doctrine no matter how repeatedly they violate it. There is inevitable revulsion against any blatant attempt to make cruelty a law of behavior.
 * Edgar Pangborn, A Mirror for Observers (1954), Part Two, Chapter 4

 * If you’re interested in ethics, you could do worse than think in terms of geological time.
 * Edgar Pangborn, A Mirror for Observers (1954), Part Two, Chapter 6

 * An adequate theory of value should be as true in the gas chambers of Auschwitz as in the philosopher’s study.
 * David Pearce, "Some Quora Answers by David Pearce" (2015/2021)

R

 * Ethics is one of those hard things to teach because for a lot of people the answers are very personal. If you make it about artificial examples at first, then it allows people to think a little bit more safely and clearly about ethical issues.
 * Christopher Robichaud as qtd in “Teaching philosophy with Spider-Man”, by Katie Connolly, BBC News, (12 August 2010)

 * Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
 * Bertrand Russell, in Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918), Ch. 6: "On the Scientific Method in Philosophy", p. 108

S

 * Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
 * Albert Schweitzer, in Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics

 * The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, and that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Only the universal ethic of the feeling of responsibility in an ever-widening sphere for all that lives — only that ethic can be founded in thought. … The ethic of Reverence for Life, therefore, comprehends within itself everything that can be described as love, devotion, and sympathy whether in suffering, joy, or effort.
 * Albert Schweitzer, in Out of My Life and Thought, An Autobiography (1933), as translated by C. T. Campion, Ch. 13, p. 188

 * Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life — it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
 * Albert Schweitzer, quoted in Albert Schweitzer : The Man and His Mind (1947) by George Seaver, p. 366

T

 * I suddenly felt insecure and feared becoming an employee of some firm that would turn me into a corporate slave with "work ethics" (whenever I hear the word work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001) Seven: The Problem of Induction | Sir Karl's Promoting Agent

 * Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Ethics, p. 66.

W

 * It is above all the impersonal and economically rationalized (but for this very reason ethically irrational) character of purely commercial relationships that evokes the suspicion, never clearly expressed but all the more strongly felt, of ethical religions. For every purely personal relationship of man to man, of whatever sort and even including complete enslavement, may be subjected to ethical requirements and ethically regulated. This is true because the structures of these relationships depend upon the individual wills of the participants, leaving room in such relations for manifestations of the virtue of charity. But this is not the situation in the realm of economically rationalised relationships, where personal control is exercised in inverse ratio to the degree of rational differentiation of the economic structure.
 * Max Weber, Sociology of Religion (1922), pp. 216-217

 * “I want to be good. I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous.” “A very charming artistic basis for ethics, Dorian! I congratulate you on it.”
 * Oscar Wilde, Dorian and Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 8, p. 82

 * The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is psychological life. Life is the world. Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Journal entry (24 July 1916), p. 77e, Notebooks 1914-1916, as translated by Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, first edition (1961), Second edition (1984)

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Innovation

The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.

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 * Risk is the companion of innovation. As the Chinese proverb says, ”Unless you enter the tiger’s den you cannot take the cubs.”
 * John Adair (b.1934), British author of books on business leadership. ‘The Innovative Organization’, Ch 11, Effective Innovation, revised edition (2009).

 * Innovation is more than having new ideas: it includes the process of successfully introducing them or making things happen in a new way. It turns ideas into useful, practicable and commercial products or services.
 * John Adair (b.1934), British author, writer on business leadership. ‘Taking good ideas to market’, Ch 11, Effective Innovation (2009), revised edition.

 * Walter Isaacson’s new book ‘Innovators’, a book featuring solely white inventors, says that true innovation happens when the government, military and academia work together. Isaacson says that the biggest motive for innovation is profit. The concept of money being the sole motive for innovation is bullshit. It is an idea promoted by those in power in order to manipulate humanity.
 * Shiva Ayyadurai (b.1963), software engineer. Shiva Ayyadurai on inventing email and the backlash that followed, Rakhi Chakraborty, 2015

 * He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
 * Francis Bacon (1561-1626), ‘Of Innovations’, Essays, 24 (1625).

 * As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
 * Francis Bacon, ‘Of Innovations’, Essays, 24.

 * Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
 * Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon, from 2007 Ted Talk "The electricity metaphor for the web's future",.

 * Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.
 * Geoffrey Blainey, The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016).

 * Customers don't have a clue what you're talking about, and you don't have a clue if they will behave as you assume.
 * Steve Blank on introducing revolutionary products, in Patri K. Venuvinod (2011) Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Part III: My Startup p. 284.

 * Most often, the idea is a small part of the overall company. That's what has been screwed up with the last 30 years of grant funding. A good idea is not going to help anyone unless it succeeds in getting to the commercialization stage.
 * Steve Blank, "Steve Blank Challenges Federal Government To Learn Entrepreneurship", Forbes. 12 December 2014.

 * Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
 * Sergey Brin. Interviewed by Jemima Kiss for the Guardian (UK) newspaper, ‘Secrets of a nimble giant’, Wednesday 17th June 2009.

 * The task facing philosophy today is to examine its filiations to its most hallowed concepts and to consider anew their productivity. ... The result of this task might be to see old concepts as more productive than new ones, which suffer not merely from the fact that they are inevitably expressions of the general conditions of possibility of the present moment, but also because of the way in which the eternal production of the new is linked more strongly than ever to the basic drive of capitalism.
 * Nicholas Brown and Imre Szemán, “Twenty-five Theses on Philosophy in the Age of Finance Capital,” in Leftist Ontology, edited by Carsten Strathausen (2009), pp. 36-37

 * To innovate is not to reform.
 * Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796).

 * Defined simply, innovation is, of course, the introduction of something new. We presume that the purpose of introducing something new into a process is to bring about major, radical change. Process innovation combines a structure for doing work with an orientation to visible and dramatic results. It involves stepping back from a process to inquire into its overall business objective, and then effecting creative and radical change to realize order-of-magnitude improvements in the way that objective is accomplished.
 * Thomas H. Davenport, Process Innovation: Reengineering Work through Information Technology, Harvard Business School Press (1993).

 * The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.
 * Patrick Dixon. Building a Better Business (2005) p 137.

 * I always stress to my clients that they have to be ready to change. You have to be prepared to make your innovation obsolete. But many companies aren’t prepared to do that.
 * Peter Drucker. ‘Peter’s Principles’, Context magazine, Spring, 1998.

 * Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you’ve got to be prepared for that, but if you don’t risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.
 * Michael Grade, British broadcasting executive. From the transcript of his interview with Martyn Lewis, in his book, Reflections on Success (1997).

 * No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.
 * Robert Heller, British business journalist and author. Ch. 5, ‘The Innovators’, The Decision Makers (1989).

 * Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.
 * Robert Heller, The Decision Makers (1989).

 * Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious — that is, passionate.
 * Robert Heller. ‘Business strategy: the lessons of the 'big ideas’, 30 Jun 2009, in his blog, Thinking Managers, on, management-issues.com website.

 * The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
 * Masaru Ibuka, founder of Sony, quoted in Fortune (24 Feb 1992). In Julia Vitullo-Martin and J. Robert Moskin, The Executive's Book of Quotations (2002), 271.

 * Change is not made without inconvenience, even for worse to better.
 * Richard Hooker (1554-1600), As quoted in the Preface of Johnson’s English Dictionary

 * At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. He and his colleagues at Apple were able to think differently. They developed not merely modest product advances based on focus groups, but whole new devices and services that consumers did not yet know they needed.
 * Walter Isaacson, (1st edition 2011)

 * There seems to be this almost innate desire to tell stories about innovation in terms of eureka moments. For some reason, we just want to ... condense them to these moments of sudden clarity, where a light bulb pops over someone's head and they ... suddenly see the world differently. The apple falls from the tree — and they have a theory of gravity — whatever the trigger is. But when you actually go back and look at it ... in the historical record of innovation, eureka moments are the exception and not the rule. Almost always, there is a very long incubation period that goes into a breakthrough idea.
 * Steven Johnson, (quote at 12:11 of 54:11)

 * Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.
 * Max Mckeown, British management guru and author. The Truth About Innovation (2008), ‘Truth 1’, p. 2.

 * Creativity can only survive in organizations in which the climate is empathetic to the whole process.
 * Simon Majaro. The Creative Gap, Longman (1988).

 * Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power—Us. We are the future.
 * Max Mckeown. 'Preface', The Truth About Innovation, (2008).

 * Stay one step ahead of the crowd—and you invite a kick in the pants.
 * Artie Pine, as quoted in "It Happened Last Night: Wish I'd Said That" by Earl Wilson, Camden Courier-Post (February 20, 1951)

 * The stone that is rolling can gather no moss; For master and servant oft changing is loss.
 * Thomas Tusser (1524-1580), ‘Housewifely Admonitions’, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

 * At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.
 * Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, on innovative trial and error, "Business Insider", accessed 20 April 2017.

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Ace Combat

The Ace Combat (エースコンバット) series is a combat flight simulation video game series made by Namco. Although much of the games are set in fictional universes, they borrow elements from real-life wars, such as the Persian Gulf War, the Cold War, World War II, and many others.

 * Side Story Narrator: I was just a child when the stars fell from the skies. But I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them. And in turn how that cannon brought war upon us. War was an abstract idea, nothing more than a show on TV. As a child, I only saw it as something that happened in some far away land... Until that final day of summer... One day while on my way to school, I looked up in the skies. A sound like distant thunder. In the blue skies far above me, contrails drew dizzying circles around in a crazy waltz. A battle in the beautiful skies far away... I could not tear my gaze away from them. A deafening roar. And then sharp silhouettes appeared, as if to graze the hills, and streaked past me. The fighters played the cat or the mouse in turn as they climbed swiftly into the sky. One fleeing plane fell out of the skies, spiraling and spewing orange flames to crash into the cape. The same cape where my family lived. Now they only live in my memories of days past. The victor circled around to confirm the kill. And on his craft, there was a large number 13 emblazoned in yellow. I will never forget this.

 * [hangar speech before the final mission]
 * General: Good morning, troops. I have an important announcement. In one hour, each one of you will take part in the most important mission in our history. A mission that will result in the defeat of the vile enemy who has brought chaos to our continent. Although we are from different nations and of different races, we have fought, suffered, and died together. Fighting for what we believe in. Fighting for freedom! Today, we shall gather for the final battle to liberate our beautiful continent and restore freedom to our people, our friends and our families. Our victory will herald the beginning of a new era of prosperity for the Usean continent. Victory will be ours! We shall return peace to our people. We will win back our freedom, and our future. The skies belong to everyone! Now, let us take back our "Shattered Skies"!

 * [after the Megalith mission]
 * AWACS SkyEye: Target destroyed! There he is! We've got Mobius 1 on radar!
 * Friend G: Bravo 1 here. That plane that flew in, is it all right?
 * AWACS SkyEye: Yes, he's fine. I've got a visual on him right now.
 * Friend G: So did we win the war?
 * AWACS SkyEye: I don't know. History determines the winner. But there's one thing I can say for certain. Heroes really do exist. We've just seen one, and now he's coming home.

 * Side Story Narrator: The once familiar scent of burning jet fuel has long since faded away. What was once Yellow Squadron's runway is now just a local highway again. I write this letter to you now... I know it must have brought him unexpected joy to have an opponent like you, at the end of that meaningless war. At least that's what I want to believe. Only you... the pilot who shot him down, can confirm this. And so I write to you...

 * Albert Genette: 15 years ago, there was a war. Well... war's broken out here plenty of times before. They've tried to invade the south lands through the northern valley time and time again. Luck was never on their side, though, and their victories didn't last long. They didn't realize that times had changed. Facing one defeat after another, losing territory and watching their nation dwindle, they built up their industrial strength to unprecedented heights and used it to wage one final battle against the world. That was 15 years ago... They fought ferociously, but were utterly defeated. The Belkans then committed the unthinkable—they used nuclear weapons on their own soil. Seeing this tragedy unfold before their own eyes, the victorious countries vowed to throw down their weapons. The world was once again at peace. And thanks to them, it seemed it would last forever. On a distant island, far away from civilization, the protectors of the peace take to the skies.

 * Cpt. Jack Bartlett: Why do they even bother reprimanding me anymore? I know I'm gonna be stuck at Captain forever.
 * Genette: Who do you think's covering up the battle?
 * Bartlett: Listen... The only thing across that ocean is Murska Air Base. That's Yuktobanian territory.
 * Genette: But haven't we been allies with the Yukes since the war 15 years ago?
 * Bartlett: Yeah. That's why we got people working their asses off trying to confirm what the hell's going on over there. I bet they've got hotlines ringing off the hook somewhere upstairs. The government doesn't wanna get the public riled up with all this, you know? But, it doesn't matter, soldiers like us are too stupid to think for ourselves, so we just gotta keep our mouths shut when they tell us to. I feel kinda bad for you, actually.
 * Genette: It's all right. I get to be with you guys.
 * Peter N. Beagle: Captain's probably hating this more than anybody.
 * Genette: Hm?
 * Beagle: He used to have a lady friend over in Yuktobania.
 * Bartlett: Ahh, that's just an old war wound now.
 * [the "Heartbreak One" emblem on Bartlett's plane is shown]

 * [during the bombing of Port St. Hewlett]
 * AWACS Thunderhead: Thunderhead to Wardog. Edge, you lead the formation.
 * Kei "Edge" Nagase: Negative. You take the lead, Blaze. I'll fly on your wing.
 * AWACS Thunderhead: Second Lieutenant Nagase, follow your orders.
 * Nagase: No. Blaze is leading. I'll protect his 6 o'clock. And I'm not gonna lose another flight lead.
 * Marcus "Swordsman" Snow: Quit screwing around. This is war! The enemy's all over and they're gonna eat you alive!
 * Alvin H. "Chopper" Davenport: Aaah... I'd better stick to the trail position, thanks.

 * Nagase: The white bird rose up once again, laser cannon in its wings. It was a moving sight. In my heart, though, I wished it didn't have to be used in war.

 * Genette: Despite the hectic mood among the staff at HQ, the start of the briefing was delayed. But the weary pilots, knowing full well that they must force their exhausted bodies back into the air once the order was given, weren't the slightest bit disturbed by the delay.
 * Hans "Archer" Grimm: Hey... what are you writing there?
 * Nagase: I just can't remember this next phrase...
 * Davenport: Here, lemme see.
 * Nagase: Hey! "The princess couldn't feed the dove that day. She was too sick."
 * Grimm: May I take a look?
 * Davenport: ...Razgriz. The Demon of Razgriz got her, right?
 * Nagase: You know the story?
 * Davenport: The demon from the north sea! I remember, my grandma used to tell me bedtime stories about it. And every time she did, I'd be too scared to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

 * Beagle: Look at that wreckage. I'm amazed they're still making 'em like this.
 * Genette: They?
 * Beagle: This looks like a standard fighter jet, but it's actually different. They've done a lot of things to reduce the number of parts and cut down manufacturing costs, without sacrificing the plane's strength and performance. Very cost-effective. You could make three planes for the price of two this way.
 * Genette: Who's this "they" you're referring to?
 * Beagle: North Osea Gründer Industries. Formerly the South Belka Munitions Factory, run by the Belkan government.
 * Genette: But Osea's taken over that land now. South Belkan technology is being used for Osea. Why does Yuktobania have this?
 * Beagle: Good question. Actually, [groans as he sits down] speaking of Belka, Osea recruited some Belkan flying aces after the war 15 years ago to strengthen our Air Force. You know about this?
 * Genette: No... Really?
 * Beagle: An aggressor squadron comprised entirely of Belkan aces... Our old enemy. Well, that's the rumor, anyway. Even an old fox like me isn't sure they exist. I bet the current administration isn't even aware of the story.

 * Genette: The squadron from Sand Island became the President's personal airfleet... even as the official reports continued to state that they were shot down and killed.
 * [Genette's camera focuses on an emblem depicting the Demon of Razgriz]
 * Genette: This was their new emblem.

 * Genette: The Kestrel... is gone.
 * Cpt. Nicholas A. Andersen: I've lost time and time again... but now I've finally won.
 * Genette: Huh?
 * Andersen: Look. We launched them off safely. There's my victory. As long as they're in the air, I haven't lost. And I know they'll succeed.

 * [during the "A Call For Peace" broadcast]
 * President Vincent Harling: This is President Harling of the Osean Federation. Attention, all Osean and Yuktobanian officers and soldiers currently on the battlefield. Let us put down our guns and come out of the trenches. The Osean capital of Oured has been freed of the people who took advantage of my absence to usurp control of the country. Once robbed of my freedom and of my ability to do the right thing, I now stand again under the light of the golden sun, and I do so with the honorable Yuktobanian Prime Minister Nikanor by my side. We have resolved our terrible and unfortunate misunderstandings, and the war is now over. [ushers Nikanor to podium]
 * Prime Minister Seryozha Viktrovich Nikanor: This is Prime Minister Nikanor, head of government for the Union of Yuktobanian Republics. Attention, all officers and soldiers of Osea and Yuktobania currently on the battlefield. [invites Harling to step forward] Please watch as President Harling and I stand shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand. President Harling's words are true. The war is over, but there is one more battle that still needs to be fought.
 * Harling: We believe that those who have tried to stir hatred between us are now preparing a weapon that could wipe out half of all metropolitan areas in either one of our countries. Our comrades are in flight as I speak, determined to stop this plan dead in its tracks. Which country is under the threat of mass destruction? That, we do not know.
 * Nikanor: However, that is no longer important. No matter which country is hit, it would be a severe blow to all of us.
 * Harling: So now I ask you, members of the military. If you see it in your hearts, please utilize the resources available to you and help out our brave pilots. Right now they are now flying east [looks up] to meet the enemy.
 * Nikanor: To those who still dare to hide behind the power of their hateful weapons. Bring yourself before the light of peace and harmony. [applause and cheers from audience]

 * Genette: When history witnesses a great change, Razgriz reveals itself... first, as a dark demon. As a demon, it uses its power to rain death upon the land, and then it dies. However, after a period of slumber, Razgriz returns, this time, as a great hero.

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 * Amidst the eternal waves of time From a ripple of change shall the storm rise Out of the abyss peer the eyes of a demon Behold the Razgriz, its wings of black sheath
 * The Demon soars through dark skies Fear and death trail in its shadow beneath Until men united wield a hallowed sabre In final reckoning, the beast is slain
 * As the Demon sleeps man turns on man His blood and madness soon cover the earth From the depths of despair awaken the Razgriz Its black wings ablaze in majestic light

 * Larry "Pixy" Foulke: Did you know... there are three kinds of aces? Those who seek strength. Those who live for pride. And those who can read the tide of battle. Those are the three. And him... He was a true ace.

 * Brett Thompson: 10 years ago, there was a war that engulfed the world. The Belkan War. And in that war was a pilot who trailed across the sky, and disappeared from history. He was a lone mercenary who inspired both fear and admiration. He is the man I seek.

 * Foulke: Belkan Priority One Strategic Airspace, B7R... aka the "Round Table". It was the grand stage where we pilots performed. We were all on an equal footing, fighting under the same conditions. No affiliations or ranks to hinder us. Aces from every nation crisscrossed through those skies in pursuit of air superiority. The only rule of engagement was... to survive.

 * Foulke: This is the Round Table. Dead men's words hold no meaning.

 * [during the later furball at B7R]
 * Patrick James "PJ" Beckett: I fight for peace. That's what I'm up here for.
 * Foulke: While you're up here "fighting for peace", tons of blood is being shed on the ground. Some "peace", kid.
 * Beckett: And I'm here to put an end to that.
 * Foulke: You think you can stop the bloodshed by shedding more blood? Flyin' with all those ideals swimming around in your head is gonna get you killed.

 * Foulke: Every time I flew with him, his skill stood out. He was unstoppable.
 * [Mercenary path] It didn't matter where the battlefield was, the man had complete trust in his own powers. He was born for battle, a Demon Lord who struck down all opposition. He paid no heed to the troubles of those who flew with him.
 * [Soldier path] He would ascertain the situation in an instant and change the tide of battle. He was born for combat. It was no wonder they called him a Demon Lord. That said, it was hell trying to keep up with him.
 * [Knight path] He was cool-headed and proud. A combat professional. "Demon Lord" fit him perfectly. Maybe the man was blessed by the goddess of war.
 * Foulke: Before long, everyone had taken notice of him. More and more would show up to watch him go off on sortie. Mercenaries or maintenance crew, it didn't matter. People wanted to burn his image to their memories. Hell, they weren't the only ones.

 * Foulke: [after the bombing of Hoffnung] Damn them all...
 * Foulke: [to Thompson] Nobody knew why they were fighting anymore. All I felt at that point was sadness for the world. That's why I...

 * Joshua "Lucan" Bristow: We will carry out the new creation of destruction through the power of righteousness. Territories, peoples, authorities... all will be liberated. This is the new state, "A World With No Boundaries", we'll create. Neither nations nor nationalities have meaning. We will erase these unnecessary borders. The World With No Boundaries will pen a new story. The world will change.

 * Foulke: [to Cipher] So, have you found a reason to fight yet... Buddy?

 * Foulke: [to Cipher] Those who survive a long time on the battlefield start to think they're invincible. I bet you do, too, Buddy.
 * [after Foulke launches a "V2" ballistic missile]
 * Foulke: Too bad, Buddy. This twisted game needs to be reset. We'll start over from "zero" with this V2 and entrust the future to the next generation.
 * AWACS Eagle Eye: This is AWACS. Listen up, Galm 1! We've completed analysis of the enemy craft. Codename: Morgan. This plane is protected by an ECM defense system. Its only weak point is in the front air intake. You'll have to attack it head-on. Go! Take down Morgan! You're the only one who can stop him. Demon Lord of the Round Table... I pray for your success!
 * Foulke: You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves. There may be a resemblance, but we never face the same direction.

 * Rainer "Cormorant" Altman: [to Thompson, in Directus] They ring the bells here at dusk to honor the liberation of the capital. It signals peace, but to me, they are the sounds of death.

 * Foulke: [to Thompson] It may be true that the world has no need of borders. But would getting rid of them really change anything? The world won't change for the better unless we trust people. Trust is vital in a peaceful world. But that will never happen. I'm still on the battlefield. Right now I'm near a border. I want to see for myself what borders really mean and what their volition really is... I may not find what I'm looking for, but I still wanna try. Anyway, that's what I've come to believe and I think that's enough. Will he see this video? If you do meet him, give him a message for me.
 * [Foulke looks directly at the camera]
 * Foulke: Yo, Buddy. Still alive? And thanks, friend. See you again.
 * Thompson: The Demon Lord of the Round Table. A warrior who soared through the Belkan War, inspiring both fear and admiration. His presence filled the skies for but a few short months before he disappeared. Apart from that, nothing is known about him. I was never able to find out what kind of a person he really was. But whenever they talked about him, they always had a slight smile on their faces. That, perhaps, may be my answer.

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 * For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either.
 * Blaise Pascal, Pascal's wager
 * Then even nothingness was not, nor existence. There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping? Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?
 * The Rigveda
 * All held the finite and infinite as unrelated. None could foresee that the history of the two would become one.
 * Unknown
 * Without beginning or end, the ring stretches into the infinite.
 * Unknown, final mission loading quote

 * Albert Genette: Almost nightly, Leasath's commanding officer, Diego Gaspar Navarro, plays host to grand banquets within Gaiuss Tower. This evening, he is once again proudly trumpeting the glory of his airborne fortress. I've heard the speech so many times, it feels like I wrote it. Which, in a way, is a good thing, because it lets me concentrate on enjoying the food instead.

 * Aurelia Fleet: 1st Fleet to 3rd Fleet. Any sign of the Gleipnir?
 * Aurelia Fleet: 3rd Fleet. No sign of it yet.
 * Aurelia Fleet: Understood. Continue your patrol of the area.
 * [unusually heavy wind noise is heard]
 * Aurelia Fleet: What's that sound?
 * [the Gleipnir uncloaks right above the fleet]
 * Aurelia Fleet: Look! It's the Gleipnir!
 * Aurelia Fleet: Don't just stand there! Attack! Target the Gleipnir!
 * Aurelia Fleet: Commence cannon fire! Hit it with everything we've got!
 * Aurelia Fleet: The SWBM can't reach us here, but watch out for conventional ordnance!
 * Aurelia Fleet: Look, the disk on the bottom has started to glow. What's it go—
 * [static as the Aurelia 2nd Fleet explodes in a flash of bright blue light]
 * Aurelia Fleet: The ships under the Gleipnir just disintegrated!
 * Aurelia Fleet: What the hell was that?!
 * Aurelia Fleet: 2nd Fleet, do you read me! This is the 1st Fleet! Come in! Come in!

 * [following the destruction of the Gleipnir]
 * Genette: [on Navarro] Even after all that's happened, why does he still seem so naturally at ease? I've unwittingly found myself fearing for the safety of the Southern Cross.

 * Genette: It's said that the only true winners in any war are those who achieve what they intended. Diego Navarro had left Aurelia's capital in defeat. Yet, his goal of increasing arms exports had been achieved. It seemed as though he may be the true victor in this war.

 * [after Gryphus 1 enters the base in Mission 15B]
 * Leasath Base Soldier: Fenrir's been destroyed!
 * Leasath Base Commander: Put out that fire! Protect the control system!
 * Leasath Base Soldier: No. It's no good. The fire extinguishing system is out!
 * Leasath Base Commander: Use whatever you can find! Put the fire out! Leasath's future depends on it!
 * Leasath Base Soldier: The hallways are engulfed in flames! There's nothing we can do!
 * Leasath Base Soldier: It's too big! The flames are spreading!
 * Leasath Base Soldier: Dammit! It's spread all the way in here!
 * Leasath Base Commander: The future of our country destroyed, all because of one single pilot, Nemesis!

 * Eugene "Crux" Solano: Crux to Gryphus 1. That was a little too risky, sir. It made me nervous just watching you. It wouldn't feel like a victory if you weren't there to celebrate it with us, sir. When you think about it, you can't help but feel sorry for Leasath's soldiers. They were nothing but pawns in Navarro's sick game...

 * Genette: Archelon and Diego Navarro's beloved weapon Fenrir were ripped by explosions and engulfed in flames. While these images flashed on the screen, the eyes of the press watched as the enraged citizens of Leasath stormed in on commanding officer Diego Navarro. When the rage of the thousands had finally subsided, it is said that there was nothing left but the shattered remains of Fenrir. It's ironic that the stage for the unveiling of his greatest triumph would be his ultimate undoing.

 * Lt. Col. Victor Voychek: Calling all Strigon planes. Gracemeria shall be ours for the taking.

 * AWACS Ghost Eye: Air Defense Command has ordered an evacuation. You've been ordered to give up Gracemeria. Break away from this airspace and head west.
 * Windhover: Are you out of your mind? We can't comply with that order.
 * AWACS Ghost Eye: We are militarily at a huge disadvantage here. Comply with the order and head west.
 * Avalanche: This is Avalanche. We're not going anywhere.
 * AWACS Ghost Eye: Listen! It's only temporary. The plan is to withdraw, meet up with all remaining forces from each area, then regroup for a counter attack. We can't afford to lose you. Follow the order.
 * Marcus Lampert: This is Garuda 2 to Garuda 1. We really should get out of here.

 * Lt. Cdr. Ilya Pasternak: Garuda, are you getting this? It's not over yet.
 * [UAVs and Pasternak's aircraft appear]
 * Lampert: Who is this?!
 * Pasternak: The real war has just begun.
 * Lampert: Who the hell is this?! What are you talking about?!
 * Pasternak: Corrupt governments and marred lands are no longer worth fighting to protect. There's only one thing worth protecting now.
 * AWACS Ghost Eye: Unknown aircraft approaching fast! This may be an attack!
 * Pasternak: And that's the future.

 * Col. William Bishop: The shark. You're real.
 * Col. Andrei "Akula" Markov: Colonel Bishop.
 * Cpt. José "Guts" Gutierrez: Get off our frequency, asshole.
 * Markov: Ah, Captain Gutierrez, your eloquence is legendary. A pleasure to speak directly to you, Colonel Bishop. Even if it's only to say, farewell.

 * AWACS Magic: Magic to all planes. I have an incoming message from the Commander in Chief.
 * President David Hamilton: This is President David Hamilton. As I speak, our nation is under attack by a group of renegade Russian pilots. They are determined to kill our innocent civilians with a powerful air-launched weapon. I have personally directed the Air Force and other military branches to intercept these criminals. They have orders to shoot them all down before they harm our country. This is a dark and difficult day. But at the end, we will persevere. To the brave men and women defending us. Godspeed.

 * [after Slash ejects]
 * Edge This is Edge. I have one pilot bailing out. Parachute deployed. Requesting immediate evac... [sees a UAV kill Slash] Oh no!
 * Unknown: Ha ha!
 * Viper: What is it?!
 * Omega: [stunned] ...I saw it happen.
 * Viper: What?! What did you see?!
 * Omega: Slash... in midair... They're shooting at bailed-out pilots?!
 * Viper: Tch! Omega, keep it together!
 * Edge: You call yourself a pilot? I swear I'll kill them all!
 * Viper: You too, lady!

 * AWACS Sky-Eye: Begin your attack on the cruiser now!
 * Viper: Viper, ready to hunt that whale!
 * Omega: Roger that, Captain Ahab.
 * Viper: Hey, didn't he go down with Moby Dick in the end?
 * Omega: Wow, you actually read it?

 * [Avril Mead remembers something her grandfather said]
 * Mead's grandfather: Y'know, Avie... I wish you could see what it's like up there. Cruising above the clouds. The dark blue of the stratosphere. Nothing beats being at the controls and seeing it from the cockpit. Look here...
 * Mead: [recalling] Gramps tossed a magazine over to me with an article. "Unmanned fighters are no longer a dream," it read. "Pilots taking to the skies will soon be a distant memory."
 * Mead's grandfather: I don't see anything good comin' from that.

 * AWACS Sky Keeper: The skies are clear. Nice work, everyone. Mission complete. RTB.
 * Knocker: No casualties. We couldn't have done any better. Returning to base.
 * Brownie: I don't know. Maybe the bandits we took down caused civilian casualties.
 * Clown: No point arguin'. That's how war is these days.
 * Knocker: You shoot, someone gets killed. The guys in charge take care of the rest.

 * Wit: Sol 1, please respond. What's your status?
 * Mihaly A. "Archange" Shilage: My status? Well, I'm feeling a little excited.

 * Wiseman: Hey Guard Dog, who's the guy who worked his ass off at the rear?
 * AWACS Bandog: [scoffs] The biggest dumbass in the unit.
 * Wiseman: Makes sense. Only an idiot would be brave enough to pull off those moves.

 * [during the Stonehenge defensive]
 * Osean Ground Unit: I gave my men a 15-minute vacation. Sorry, I need a short breather myself. I'll just be stitching on my lost limbs. Should be back before lunch.
 * Count: What did you say?

 * Major Deanna McOnie: Those vehicles were Stonehenge's eyes. Without those... I'm... I'm sorry.
 * Warrant Officer Lehmann: Don't give up yet, Major. We still have sensors. Our eyes. The oldest sensors in the book.

 * Dr. Schroeder: I understood why he never seemed to care about restoring his stolen country back to its former glory. And why he didn't seem to care about anything that happened here on the ground. Of course. Mihaly's kingdom... was the sky.

 * Princess Rosa Cossette D'Elise: Have you seen all of those countless old space shuttles on Tyler Island that are no longer in use?
 * Mead: Yeah. [scoffs] I always thought of them as a good source of scrap. They're an obsolete technology that was abandoned during the construction of the space elevator. Which would mean that if the space elevator was destroyed, it would be that much harder for mankind to reach the stars, until we find another way.
 * D'Elise: But even then, Harling still went ahead and tried to destroy it. At the cost of his own life.
 * Mead: That's not the way I heard it. What I heard was that he sacrificed himself to protect the tower from an incoming missile.
 * D'Elise: Oh. I was told he tried to fly his ship into the tower in order to destroy it.
 * Mead: I wonder which story is true, Your Royal Highness.
 * D'Elise: I don't know... Looking at it objectively, it's reasonable to believe that Harling had both options before him.
 * Mead: When it comes to which one you think he took, I guess it's like a mirror.
 * D'Elise: Yes, it is. It's like a mirror looking into your own soul, based on whichever choice you believe it was.

 * Shilage: This weapon is not enough to take down Three Strikes. This aircraft is my body. If they are not enough, then I must put my soul into it. [to Trigger] There are pilots like you in every generation. And I felled every last one of them.

 * Schroeder: [monologuing] Mihaly's granddaughter tossed the gun aside. She said if she resorted to killing, she'd just end up like the rest of us. And by "us", she meant everyone. Including the Princess. Like me, the Princess was afraid to look into the girl's eyes. She knew that by encouraging her people, she kept the war going. Mihaly and his granddaughter were victims of it, and now... they, too, were paying the price.
 * Ionela A. Shilage: [to Schroeder] Is this for Belka? Or for Erusea? My grandfather had only one wish. To continue soaring through the endless skies. That was the only place where he felt alive. But I don't even have a country to call home, let alone the sky. The black forest, the lake... they are no longer mine. Even though those lands were once cherished by my late mother. We have to learn to put that sense of nostalgia behind us and behave like mature adults!
 * Schroeder: [monologuing] My homeland... She's right. It feels so far away now.

 * D'Elise: I wonder...
 * Schroeder: Yes?
 * D'Elise: I wonder which path you would choose... when looking at Harling's mirror.

 * Count: Don't worry. I learned something from my last squadron. "Stick with Trigger and you'll make it."

 * Mead: Hey, Trigger, you dumbass. Tell me something. What color's the sky up there?

 * Mead: To Skies Unknown... The path to mankind's vast future remains standing, Granddad.

SP Missions

 * David North: I'm still unconvinced. So here's a question for you, Alex. How can we do this without killing Three Strikes?

 * Cpt. Matias Torres: It's a requiem. Set off as soon as we're ready!

 * [if Trigger fires on the Alicorn at Artiglio]
 * Brigadier General Howard Clemens: The point of this mission is to capture it! Did you sleep through the briefing, you idiot?!

 * Elke "Scream" van Dalsen: Three Strikes, I will have you! You will die!
 * Count: What?!
 * Skald: Am I hearing things?
 * Húxiān: Nah, I hear it too.

 * Torres: Heed my words. This boat has the means to end this hideous war, in a definitive and elegant manner. We seek not a conflict, but rather a restoration of balance, a judgment. And it will be done with reason, from beginning to end. The world shall be horrified by the number of lives we will take. Only then will they let go of their weapons... weapons that would have taken the lives of ten million.
 * [Trigger downs a plane carrying a large cruise missile]
 * Submarine CDO: Seems he was downed by Three Strikes.
 * Torres: The damn bastard ruined it.
 * Submarine CDO: Captain?
 * Torres: Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp, white sheets of my bed that I had just made! Let's have him assist in the next plan... It'll make a fine sideshow for our scheme to kill a million people. Or was it the plan to save ten million lives, Command Duty Officer?

 * Alex: David. I've built a model of Captain Torres and Three Strikes, based on your hypothesis and mission parameters from the past. I ran a precision combat simulation... but, it failed.
 * North: Bummer. Why didn't it work?
 * Alex: Reasons in sensuous order are: 1. Your hypothesis is trash. 2. The parameters you gave me are trash.
 * North: Um... Did I do something to tick you off?
 * Alex: 3. Captain Torres is a singularity.
 * North: So the values diverge... But what about this one? "4. Three Strikes is a singularity."

 * Otto "Rage" van Dalsen: [to Trigger] What makes you a hero?! We tried to be heroes too, we really tried!

 * [after Scream is shot down, if Rage is shot down first]
 * AWACS Long Caster: Unidentified aircraft, eject!
 * Scream: No.
 * AWACS Long Caster: Eject now!
 * Scream: No! I know Rage's going to heaven, so I'm gonna be all alone again in hell. I'll be waiting for you down there, Three Strikes. Three Strikes... I— [static]

 * [after Rage is shot down, if Scream is shot down first]
 * Rage: [wheezing laughter] It's just as I imagined. No matter what we do, this is how we end. But know this, Three Strikes. I'd rather go to hell than live in a world shaped by you! So yeah, we'll be heading there now!
 * AWACS Long Caster: Unidentified aircraft, eject!
 * [Rage yells in anguish]
 * AWACS Long Caster: Eject now!
 * Rage: I gotta catch up to her— [static]

 * North: Brigadier General, do you recognize the name Edgar Saxon—or Zul, as he used to go by? He is a former member of the Alicorn's crew. And your source of intel.
 * VJCS Edwards: You are a fool, Brigadier General Clemens. Not only that, the radio communications during the mission suggest you are a traitor.
 * Clemens: Sir, if you check with Lieutenant General Shepherd, you'll understand that this is all just a misunderstanding!
 * Edwards: The Lieutenant General claims you were responsible for handling all aspects of the mission. Now, lemme say that again. Get the MP.
 * Húxiān: No need for that. Piece of shit. [is heard striking Clemens]

 * North: [to the LRSSG] The Alicorn was in harbor at Anchorhead for approximately ten minutes. They couldn't have loaded SLBMs. They loaded something smaller.
 * Húxiān: Smaller?
 * North: What is smaller and yet a powerful weapon?
 * Skald: Huh... Tactical nukes.
 * North: Close. The answer is tactical nuclear shells.
 * [later]
 * North: Their target's Oured, the Osean capital.
 * Lanza: They want a nuclear war?
 * North: Here's a question. What's a situation where nuclear deterrence doesn't work?
 * Húxiān: Quiz guy, I've had enough of this.
 * Skald: Oh, only if terrorists have the nukes.
 * North: Correct.
 * Lanza: Damn, Skald.
 * Skald: Hey. I'm good at trivia games.
 * Count: But we're after an Erusean submarine, not terrorists.
 * Wiseman: No... he's right. HQ tells me, Erusea's justification is that the Alicorn mutinied. "As such, the Erusean military cannot be held responsible for the submarine's actions."
 * Húxiān: Damn.
 * North: So they intend on dropping a nuke on the Osean capital of Oured.
 * Lanza: Here's a question for you, analyst. Just exactly who are we fighting?
 * North: Correct term is "terrorist" or "irregular military", but I have a different name for them. "An enemy to be stopped at all costs".
 * Wiseman: Correct.

 * North: Some individuals are exempt from rules that should apply to everyone. A hero is suddenly a risk factor the moment the war is over. So you murder him. Crude, but effective. In reality, they've no need for living heroes, just dead ones. Here's a question, Alex. Can we stop Captain Matias Torres?
 * Alex: Depends on if you treat the captain or Three Strikes as a singularity.
 * North: Both are. What happens when two singularities exist on the same field?
 * Alex: That requires seven months calculation with current resources.
 * North: We'll just have to trust the guys in the field.

 * Specter 1: We're all prepared to buy the farm, and that's why there's so many of us.

 * [during the assault on the Alicorn]
 * Torres: The two years that we fought at the bottom of the sea... I will not allow our perseverance to be desecrated!
 * Torres: There's no means of retreat! We'll have to kill them all if we are to live! If you wish to live, then you must let go of your life!
 * Torres: Be not afraid! Did you not leave your fears behind at the bottom of the abyss?
 * Torres: My fellow submariners! Your lives carry weight! It gives you the right to take the lives of others!
 * SACS Pilot: We're dead men walking! Why should we fear death?

 * Torres: Let me tell you a story. Back when I was a gunnery officer... I had to aim at an enemy ship 30 kilometers away in the middle of a storm. The seas were rough that day, and still I landed one of the two shots.
 * North: Here's a question. Was your plan elegant? The answer is yes. At least until Three Strikes ruined it.
 * Torres: What do you know of beauty?!

 * Torres: A powerful boat, a powerful gun, powerful ammunition! Add to that lots of people and a precise aim! Then sprinkle death over all of it, and the formula is complete!
 * North: You're nothing more than a mass murderer!
 * Torres: Then indulge me. What makes you and I any different?! You want to kill the three hundred men on this boat to save a million! How is that any different?!
 * North: Trigger, give him the answer! Have him take it to the bottom of the ocean!
 * Torres: Don't you see? Don't you see?! Landing a clean shot on a difficult target! That is what makes it elegant! That is true beauty!

 * [after the Alicorn's main rail cannon is destroyed]
 * Torres: Don't you see? One million! One million lives!
 * [Torres' mad laughter is replaced by static as the Alicorn explodes]

 * North: There are some who send those around them to their doom. Like Captain Matias Torres, who was a devil incarnate. But there are others... others who show the way to everyone else. Those who stand at the forefront to cast a light. Those who follow them can't help but feel that they're in the right hands. That they'll make it. This is an era where there isn't a singular answer, like a quiz question. The world awaits a hero to keep the torch aloft, banishing the darkness.

 * North: Assuming that Three Strikes is a singularity, why not terminate him?
 * Alex: There is a fact that has been observed in all of the missions Three Strikes has taken part in. All dependent elements that either mimic or follow the subject have increased chances of survival.
 * North: Try to be more sensuous.
 * Alex: Go Trigger's way, you'll make it. He leads the way.

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James Traficant

James Anthony "Jim" Traficant, Jr. (May 8, 1941 – September 27, 2014) was an American politician who served as a Democratic, and later independent, member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. He represented the 17th Congressional District, which centered on his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley. He was expelled from the House after being convicted of 10 felony counts including taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his Congressional staff to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and houseboat in Washington, D.C.

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 * Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
 * Said on numerous occasions at the end of speeches in Congress, quoted in

 * Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. government.
 * Speech in Congress (1993)

 * Mr. Speaker, Kodak is laying off 10,000 workers. Now if that is not enough to overexpose your most recent negative, Fruit of the Loom is cutting 3,000 jobs and moving to Mexico. Unbelievable. It is getting easier to find Charlie Trie and Elvis than it is to find a good factory job here in America. Beam me up. I think it is time for Congress to ask themselves a very simple little commonsense question: If our trade program is so great, why does Japan not do it? Think about that. I yield back all the balance of jobs and say one last thing here. From snapshots to long johns, American workers just keep getting their assets kicked.
 * speech on the House floor (12 NOV 1997)

 * Beam me up. The IRS does not need more workers. The IRS does not need more money. These stumbling, fumbling, bumbling mistake-prone nincompoops have got to go.
 * speech on the House floor (18 July 2001)

 * Many of them are so dumb they could throw themselves at the ground and miss.
 * Denunciation of the press (18 July 2002), quoted in

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Apegram. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Apegram~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:42, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Apegram~enwikiquote