Quotes of: Stuart Keyword

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

Frans de Waal

If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like...

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Everyone is political in his or her own way.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.

The Blind Man's Garden

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Emily Greene Balch

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Gerard Debreu

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

Thomas Piketty

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Thomas Sowell

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Thomas Sowell

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

Mark Zandi

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Richard Powers

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Tim O'Reilly

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

Anita Elberse

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

Phillip E. Johnson

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

Jerry Kramer

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

Laura Hillenbrand

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

R. D. Laing

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Shoshana Zuboff

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Gertrude Himmelfarb