In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
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.
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
