Quotes About Impact

Our businesses also help promote socio-economic progress.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

I'm a huge feminist, I majored in sociology at college, and I care about what I put into the world.

Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of 'American Pastoral' - to imagine the impact on a good man of America's fall from the family decencies of the '30s and '40s to the self-centred violence of the '60s - outstrips anything Sabbath's Theater attempts, the writing is no less fervid an excurse into the writer's mind.

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

I did a soft drink ad some time back. Later, a mother came to me and said that her child started consuming more of that drink after seeing my ad. It made me measure my actions.

What's the point of hitting pads, landing 10,000 punches, and then landing punches that are soft as feathers in the fight? I hit hard.

Someone told me I looked like a young Tonya Harding recently, as if 'young' would soften the blow.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

I joined Baidu in 2014 to work on AI. Since then, Baidu's AI group has grown to roughly 1,300 people, which includes the 300-person Baidu Research. Our AI software is used every day by hundreds of millions of people.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it's only a click away.

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.

Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama's boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.