Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.
Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me? --Wrath
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
