Max looked around. "Where's your mutt?" "Right here, asleep. He won't bite you again. I've talked to him about it, and he's really sorry
Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.
So where'd you park the car, Max?' 'I don't know. I couldn't see over the wheel.' 'That's okay. I think I can smell it.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
