Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

In the development business doing something for both women and the environment is the equivalent of holding a royal flush in poker.

Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace

I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).

Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson

Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

Adam Draper
Adam Draper

I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tell me how its going to change. Build the equivalent of an Iron Man suit with Bitcoin.

Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

Aileen Lee
Aileen Lee

Consider the social proof of a line of people standing behind a velvet rope, waiting to get into a club. The line makes most people walking by want to find out what's worth the wait. The digital equivalent of the velvet rope helped build viral growth for initially invite-only launches like Gmail, Gilt Groupe, Spotify, and Turntable.fm.

Ajit Pai
Ajit Pai

No one seriously believes that unlocking a cellphone to switch carriers is equivalent to piracy.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson

I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.

Albert Pike
Albert Pike

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.