The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
