Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
My linguistics is pretty theoretical.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.
In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, however, we are in big trouble.
When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.
The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault. "
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.