On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too n...
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Sacrifice brings with it huge results.
All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.
I have the heart of a lion, and the circulatory system of a lamb.
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.
