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| 9f576f7 | When my dad died suddenly, my widowed mom couldn't afford my college tuition, so Morrie and his friend Jake Garber, my dad's boss, and my aunt and uncle, all pitched in. Morrie was the driving force behind it all, though. I did not come to him for help. He just came to me one day and said, "You can't afford this," and that he would make it happen. It was a powerful lesson in community for me: When you are in a real one, never, ever say to s.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| b274fca | because our workforce is so productive; our infrastructure and Internet bandwidth are so advanced; our openness to talent from anywhere is second to none; our funding for basic research is so generous; our rule of law, patent protection, and investment- and manufacturing-friendly tax code is superior to what can be found in any other country; and our openness to collaboration is unparalleled--all because we have updated and expanded our for.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 560d686 | In the twenty-first century, knowing all the answers won't distinguish someone's intelligence--rather, the ability to ask all the right questions will be the mark of true genius." Indeed," | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 9f6c36a | The political scientist Francis Fukuyama: Social capital is a capability that arises from the prevalence of trust in a society or in certain parts of it. It can be embodied in the smallest social group: a family, as well as the largest of all groups, the nation. And in all the other groups in between. Where trust is prevalent, groups and societies can move and adapt quickly through many informal contracts. By contrast, people who do NOT tru.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 1064922 | The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be. | Ali | ||
| 85974b5 | By abolishing the ethic of production you enter revolutionary reality directly. | Alfredo M. Bonanno | ||
| 71712dc | It is the equivalent of a "phase change" in chemistry from a solid to a liquid. What is the feature of something solid? It is full of friction. What is the feature of a liquid? It feels friction-free. When you simultaneously take the friction and complexity out of more and more things and provide interactive one-touch solutions, all kinds of human-to-human and business-to-consumer and business-to-business interactions move from solids to li.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 733bf7b | My host, GitHub's CEO, Chris Wanstrath, began by telling me how the "Git" got into GitHub. Git, he explained, is a "distributed version control system" that was invented in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, one of the great and somewhat unsung innovators of our time. Torvalds is the open-source evangelist who created Linux, the first open-source operating system that competed head-to-head with Microsoft Windows. Torvalds's Git program allowed a team .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 647979c | As a result, the motto in Silicon Valley today is: everything that is analog is now being digitized, everything that is being digitized is now being stored, everything that is being stored is now being analyzed by software on these more powerful computing systems, and all the learning is being immediately applied to make old things work better, to make new things possible, and to do old things in fundamentally new ways. For instance, the in.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 74b6a82 | The architect is not just working with a set of drawings but with a data model that understands the whole building as a three-dimensional living system--its windows, air-conditioning, sunlight, lighting, elevators, and how they all interact," explained Bass. The different teams working on the building can also interact and collaborate, as each change they make is dynamically integrated and optimized against the others. When" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| ad5de83 | Marie Curie never rang more true to me or felt more relevant: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| bf3f64b | Tom Goodwin, senior vice president of strategy and innovation at Havas Media, observed in a March 3, 2015, essay on TechCrunch.com: "Uber, the world's largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world's most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world's largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening." Something" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 52451ef | When technology enables such a huge leap in the prototyping process, it empowers the designer--who can immediately see all the implications of any idea he or she attempts. At the same time, the process removes so much guessing and therefore so many mistakes, and so much lost time and money. It also invites more experimentation and creativity. And | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 474c971 | On local city councils being effective: The job of the council is to get together and debate and discuss. But you do it in a way that preserves the relationships so that we can get together next week and do it again. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| cf87c83 | I don't always agree," he said. "Great," I responded. "It means you always have to check." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 0d74681 | The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire | freedom russia soviet-union | Thomas L. Friedman | |
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| c65a918 | Because when we weaken all top-down authority structures and strengthen bottom-up ones; when we create a world with not only superpowers but also super-empowered individuals; when we put so many distant strangers into proximity; when we accelerate the flow of ideas and innovation energy; when we give machines the power to think, alter DNA to remove diseases, and design plants and new materials; when Greeks not paying taxes can undermine bon.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 80db65c | In Syria, the Obama administration has constantly wrestled with a fiendishly difficult question: Should America and its allies work to take out the murderous Syrian president Bashar al-Assad first--in which case they would lose the support of Iran and Russia and likely introduce even more near-term disorder into Syria? Or should it take out ISIS first--with the tacit support of Iran and Russia--and allow Assad to stay in power, containing t.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 1dc2065 | Innovation," Teller said, "is a cycle of experimenting, learning, applying knowledge, and then assessing success or failure." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 080cd3a | As I watched the 2016 presidential campaign unfold, the words of Marie Curie never rang more true to me or felt more relevant: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 5b63534 | And since computing and storage power had exploded in 2007, the capacity to do so was suddenly there. It led IBM to a fundamental insight: "Every time we got rid of a linguist, our accuracy went up," said Gil. "So now all we use are statistical algorithms" that can compare massive amounts of texts for repeatable patterns. "We have no problem now translating Urdu into Chinese even if no one on our team knows Urdu or Chinese. Now you train th.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| e34dbab | When the Web emerged, companies, led by Yahoo, started to organize it for consumers. Yahoo began as a directory of directories. Anytime someone put up a new website, Yahoo would add it to its directory, and then it started breaking websites down into groups--finance, news, sports, business, entertainment, et cetera. "And then search came along," said Cutting, "and Web search engines, like AltaVista, started cropping up." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 0fc1e87 | When you are a reporter, your focus is on digging up facts to explain the visible and the complex and to unearth and expose the impenetrable and the hidden--wherever that takes you. You are there to inform, without fear or favor. Straight news often has enormous influence, but it's always in direct proportion to how much it informs, exposes, and explains. Opinion writing is different. When you are a columnist, or a blogger in Bojia's case, .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 231ec47 | it was not yet true what Dorothy Boyd, the secretary played by Renee Zellweger in the movie Jerry Maguire, tells her son about flying first-class: "It used to be a better meal, now it's a better life." I grew up in a time and place where the word "public" had deep resonance and engendered the highest respect as a source of innovation--as in public schools, public parks, public deliberations, and public-private partnerships. I grew up at a t.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 17baa1e | And it is not just knowledge that is improved by pausing. So, too, is the ability to build trust, "to form deeper and better connections, not just fast ones, with other human beings," adds Seidman. "Our ability to forge deep relationships--to love, to care, to hope, to trust, and to build voluntary communities based on shared values--is one of the most uniquely human capacities we have." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| fbe1c56 | In his sobering book Sabbath, the minister and author Wayne Muller observes how often people say to him, "I am so busy." "We say this to one another with no small degree of pride," Muller writes, "as if our exhaustion were a trophy, our ability to withstand stress a mark of real character ... To be unavailable to our friends and family, to be unable to find time for the sunset (or even to know when the sun has set at all), to whiz through o.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| ac917af | Sometimes the wings come off the plane," said Mayor Jacobs, "but people will accept that--if they think you're trying to get to outer space. We were trying to do the right thing. The community was extraordinarily accepting of that. If you are terrified all the time of being excoriated in the press for some minor screwup, well, I have news for you, all progress happens in fits and starts ... The space project would never have happened after .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| bddd6f3 | When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on human beings they start," argues my friend and teacher Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN, which advises global businesses on ethics and leadership. "You start to reflect, you start to rethink your assumptions, you start to reimagine what is possible and, most importantly, you start to reconnect with your most deeply held beliefs. Once you've done that, you .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 764973e | When you are a reporter, your focus is on digging up facts to explain the visible and the complex and to unearth and expose the impenetrable and the hidden--wherever that takes you. You are there to inform, without fear or favor. Straight news often has enormous influence, but it's always in direct proportion to how much it informs, exposes, and explains. Opinion writing is different. When you are a columnist, or a blogger in Bojia's case, .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 2805ec8 | Dov Seidman likes to remind me of the Talmudic saying "What comes from the heart enters the heart." What doesn't come from your heart will never enter someone else's heart. It takes caring to ignite caring; it takes empathy to ignite empathy. You also can't have an effective column without some "take" on the biggest forces shaping the world in which we live and how to influence them." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 74b8dac | Qualcomm is putting these sensor clips on all forty-eight buildings in San Diego. Suddenly the building maintenance guys "got converted to data engineers, which is exciting for them," added Tipirneni. They made sure the data was "distilled in a way that is easy for them to understand and be actionable. In the old days, when a facilities manager looked at a building, he would say: "If there is a leak someone will call me or I will see it." T.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| a7fb134 | Indeed, as the world becomes more interdependent and complex, it becomes more vital than ever to widen your aperture and to synthesize more perspectives. My | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| dad16a7 | box, | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 79f6312 | But here is a confession, which I also happily shared with him at our last meeting, which happened as I was completing this book: I had never thought this deeply about my own craft and what makes a column work until our chance encounter prompted me to do so. Had I not paused to engage him, I never would have taken apart, examined, and then reassembled my own framework for making sense of the world in a period of rapid change. Not | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 64b4bea | But the question that tugged at me, and I asked over and over was: What was that "it" that was being sustained? I needed to know because I wanted to bottle "it" and share "it." Nothing, it seemed to me, would be more useful in this age of accelerations. Having returned home to reconstruct what had worked in the past to make my community an inclusive place that could anchor and propel many of its citizens, I wanted to understand what was sti.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| cbabe7d | Humphrey famously declared: "My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are one hundred seventy-two years late. To those who say that this civil rights program is an infringement on states' rights, I say this: the time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." It" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 64b7853 | Before taking out my blank sheet of paper, though, I did one vitally important thing: I looked for a mentor. I asked myself, who is the "person" with the most experience absorbing climate changes and retaining resilience and continuing to flourish? The answer came easily: I know a woman who has been doing that for about 3.8 billion years. Her name is Mother Nature. I" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 2cacc20 | The resulting article--an almost hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre--was published across four full pages of The New York Times on September 26, 1982; it eventually won me a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 9d5ae5d | All this comes under the heading of what the journalist Thomas L. Friedman has called "the really scary stuff we already know." Much worse is what he calls "the even scarier stuff we don't know." The problem, Friedman explains, is that what we face is not global warming but "global weirding." Climate change is nonlinear: everything is connected to everything else, feeding back in ways too bewilderingly complex to model. There will be tippin.. | Ian Morris | ||
| a48960d | Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons--and they're often idealistic ones. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| f39d40f | It is fun to be around really, really creative makers in the second half of the chessboard, to see what they can do, as individuals, with all of the empowering tools that have been enabled by the supernova. I met Tom Wujec in San Francisco at an event at the Exploratorium. We thought we had a lot in common and agreed to follow up on a Skype call. Wujec is a fellow at Autodesk and a global leader in 3-D design, engineering, and entertainment.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 036c261 | this is a real double blow. It is akin to having your life-long hero, the person around whom you have modeled your whole identity, tell you that you are a fraud--but don't take it personally. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 87c773e | Launched Real Time Talent, one of the most innovative workforce development initiatives in the country. It links the curriculum and training for more than four hundred thousand postsecondary students with the skill requirements of employers in the state (RealTimeTalentMN.org). * Created the Business Bridge, which facilitates connections between the procurement functions of large corporations and smaller potential suppliers located in the re.. | Thomas L. Friedman |