Some problems are easy to find and hard to fix; some are hard to find and easy to fix; some go both ways.
The central belief of liberation theology - to provide a preferential option for the poor...providing medicine in the places that needed it the most...
The little room was a forest of equipment now. A couple of months had passed since Eagle had been cloned. Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time m...
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
Quixotic,
Change the world? Of course they could. He really believed this, and he really believed that a small group of committed individuals could do it. He liked to say of PIH, People think we’re unrealistic....
EVERY ADULT IS shaped by the experience of childhood and adolescence.
He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccu...
I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen, West said years later. There’s some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understan...
It became apparent that communications and computing served each other so intimately that they might actually become the same thing;
So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
The view reminded me of the Haitian proverb Beyond mountains there are mountains, which meant that when you’d solved one problem, you couldn’t rest because you had to go on and solve the next. The vie...
Too much protocol.
Virchow was the perfect role model for anyone who wanted to change the world, or at least lessen the inequality between the rich and poor. One of Farmer’s favorite Virchow quotes was The physicians ar...
A professor of computer science at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum writes of a malady he calls the compulsion to program. He describes the afflicted as bright young men of disheveled appearance, often wit...
Abject
The Christianity of the peasants Farmer talked to had a different flavor: the shared conviction that the rest of the world was wrong for screwing them over, and that someone, someone just and perhaps...
But he realized that Haiti was now so embedded in his mind and heart that he could never abandon the country so quickly.
Company engineers helped to design Westborough, and they made it functional and cheap. One contractor who did some work for Data General was quoted in Fortune as saying, What they call tough auditing,...
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