I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.
That's the whole point of. . . of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.
A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.
The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does.