It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.
Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
Almost without exception, the talented women I have known have believed they had less ability than they actually had. And almost without exception, the talented men I have known believed they had more.
We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen many times right here on our home planet? And how do we know it didn't? The truth is, nobody has looked.
The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.
I like talking and walking. It's more productive than doing just one.
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.
We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'
Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that's it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I'm only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'
