Gary Lang

“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”
― John R. Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

“It’s worth noting that IBM’s program, named Watson, had access to 200 million pages of content consuming four terabytes of memory.”
― Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I briefed Trump on what we knew, and he said he might tweet about it. I urged him, if he did so, to rely only on public sources, but as was so often the case, he ignored this warning, tweeting instead: Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and safe! Many are blaming me, and the United States, for the problems going on in Hong Kong. I can’t imagine why? So much for stopping all those leaks from the “deep state.”
― John R. Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir