Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations. - Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/corporate-accountability/
Illustration by John Holcraft
“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html
Illustration by John Holcroft
“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes
Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb
Illustration: Julia Pott
“In times of destruction, create something.” - Maxine Hong Kingston
Painting by Paul Davey. http://www.mattahan.com/
Boring is the new interesting. - Guy Delancey
Images by Inge Morath and Saul Steinberg
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clark
Illustration by Frank Kelly Freas
“The ascension to the tenth level of intellectual heaven would be if we find the question to which the universe is the answer, and the nature of that question in and of itself explains why it was possible to describe it in so many different ways.” - Nima Arkani-Hamed
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-different-kind-of-theory-of-everything
“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin
Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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