When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.
I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.
The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it.
We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
