You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.
Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.
Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either.