Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others
At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.
The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
The venture community is largely male.
The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.
But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.
. . . in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.
You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.