perspective Quotes

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for... ...

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what... ...

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.