“Contemporary American politics also revolve around this contradiction. Democrats want a more equitable society, even if it means raising taxes to fund programmes to help the poor, elderly and infirm. But that infringes on the freedom of individuals to spend their money as they wish. Why should the government force me to buy health insurance if I prefer using the money to put my kids through college? Republicans, on the other hand, want to maximise individual freedom, even if it means that the income gap between rich and poor will grow wider and that many Americans will not be able to afford health care.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“What if there were a way, without being an athlete, to feel what athletes feel? To play all the time, instead of working? Or else to enjoy work so much that it becomes essentially the same thing.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“The CES is the world's largest annual trade show for consumer technology, with more than 140,000 attendees. Many innovative products have debuted at the CES, including the videocassette recorder in 1970, the camcorder in 1981, digital satellite TV in 1994, HDTV in 1998, Microsoft Xbox in 2001, and Blu-ray in 2003. The show is the epicenter of electronics launches in the world.”
― Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry
― Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry
“We have tried for centuries to look deeper and deeper into finding causes and explanations, and suddenly, when we go to the very depths, to the behavior of individual particles of individual quanta, we find that this search for a cause comes to an end. There is no cause. In my eyes, this fundamental indeterminateness of the universe has not really been integrated into our worldview yet.”
― Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
― Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones—”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
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