What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster. . . what a contradiction, what a prodigy
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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.
The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history. "
My favorite characters are people who think they're normal but they're not. I live in Baltimore, and it's full of people like that. I've also lived in New York, which is full of people who think they're crazy, but they're completely normal.
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.