Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
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.
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
