“Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.”
David Belle (1973) French actor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1939867.stm
2014, "GhoshanaPatra with Narendra Modi", 2014
“Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.”
David Belle (1973) French actor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1939867.stm
W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) American professor, author, and consultant
We are of course talking here about a man-made system.
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
“Milton Friedman vs Free Lunch Advocate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qe7fLL25AQ (1980s)
Lawrence Lessig book Free Culture
Free Culture (2004)
Context: The most powerful and sexy and well loved of lobbies really has as its aim not the protection of "property" but the rejection of a tradition. Their aim is not simply to protect what is theirs. Their aim is to assure that all there is is what is theirs.
It is not hard to understand why the warriors take this view. It is not hard to see why it would benefit them if the competition of the public domain tied to the Internet could somehow be quashed.
“Education doesn’t have aims. It is the aim of other things.”
Andrew Abbott (1948) American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
Abott (2002) “Welcome to the University of Chicago http://www.ditext.com/abbott/abbott_aims.html Aims of Education Address. 2002
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Christmas 1793 speech http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n22/hugh-roberts/who-said-gaddafi-had-to-go
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
Attributed without citation in Ken Robinson, The Element (2009), p. 260. Widely attributed to Michelangelo since the late 1990s, this adage has not been found before 1980 when it appeared without attribution in E. C. McKenzie, Mac's giant book of quips & quotes.
Disputed
Variant: The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.