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This much I would say: Socialism has failed all over the world. In the eighties, I would hear every day that there is no inflation in the Soviet Union, there is no poverty in the Soviet Union, there is no unemployment in the Soviet Union. And now we find that, due to Socialism, there is no Soviet Union! ”
People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference. ”
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that. ”
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ”
I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out. ”
Pulitzers are journalist-oriented, so the publicity machine kicks in for about two days. Then, you go back to normal. ”
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine. ”
People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers. ”
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact. ”
We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that. ”