All things are only transitory.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to ta...

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

Facts are always required to draw conclusions and make serious decisions.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. An...

The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or c...

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

I suddenly remembered that Murray Gell-Mann and I were supposed to give talks at that conference on the present situation of high-energy physics. My talk was set for the plenary session, so I asked th...

Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.

When you are on top of your stuff, which on its own will secure you continuous increase

Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.

I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains.

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from Harrison, Ark., and somehow I'm an atheist now living in L.A. I am a Ra...

What does it mean when I say that 'I don't see race?' It means that because I learned to see no difference between 'white' and 'color,' I have white-washed my own sense of self. It means that I know m...

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.