Clive Thompson Quotes

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

Clive Thompson

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The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Jocko Willink

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Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

John M. McHugh

PeopleFreeVotingElectionFirst

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger's brow, the muggy air stifles - one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

Michael Dirda

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When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.

John T. Chambers

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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

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I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

Jason Silva

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Blue cheese and dates are really good if you wrap it in prosciutto. Roast it at about 400 degrees. I love having it with Fullman's mustard.

Antoni Porowski

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

Peter DeFazio

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Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Sean Combs

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As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station.

Linda M. Godwin

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The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

Ken Wilber

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