If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.
Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me. . . these minority women. . . they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.
The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.
I think willpower is very valuable.