There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.
The nice thing about things that are urgent, he liked to say, is that if you wait long enough they aren’t urgent anymore.
The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.
That’s all right, says Billy. We’re blending what we see but we aren’t allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.
That was somewhere near the middle of a modern gold rush. Never before have so many unskilled twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time as we did this decade in New York and London.
Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point.
My biggest concern is the misuse of science to support policies.
Microsoft had made it clear that the only way to preserve your station in Valley life was to create a monopoly. If you created a monopoly, you were at least partially exempt from the ordinary rapid cy...
Lance was to computer programming what Joyce was to literature, possibly profound but also baffling.
He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.
Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.
Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake, but you're not supposed to question adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules. Maybe t...
Charlie and Jamie had always sort of assumed that there was some grown-up in charge of the financial system whom they had never met; now, they saw there was not.
Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior removed from their websites the links to climate change data. The USDA removed the inspection reports of businesses accused...
You want loyalty, hire a cocker spaniel.
Trump’s budget, like the social forces behind it, is powered by a perverse desire—to remain ignorant.
There was a rift in American life that was now coursing through American government. It wasn’t between Democrats and Republicans. It was between the people who were in it for the mission, and the peop...
The subprime mortgage machine was up and running again, as if it had never broken down in the first place. If the first act of subprime lending had been freaky, this second act was terrifying. Thirty...
The rapacity of companies with monopolistic power, and their ability to have their way with the government, got her thinking about the big American systems.
The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them.