I'm a big old romantic.
The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it. '
Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.
Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.
Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war, some lessons were learned. There's a saying: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. " Or Ecclesiastes: "What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again. " Human nature always superimposes itself - its strength and its frailty over the rush of chaos of ongoing events - and we can perceive patterns and themes and motifs.
Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people from all over the world who want to engage in these activities gravitate to. They're going now to places like Syria or Yemen Libya, elsewhere.
Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.