When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those ...
When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on peoples thoughts and feelings... and if something goes wrong I can destroy that persons character... forever.
Thou shalt not invest in a needless business. Thou shalt not trade time for money. Thou shalt not operate on a limited scale. Thou shalt not relinquish control. Thou shalt not let a business startup be an event over process.
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you ...
September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.
Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes ...
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.
