Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
Any system described by a power law [. . . ] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.
Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.