Farmer liked to tell his Harvard students that to be a good clinician you must never let a patient know that you have problems too, or that you’re in a hurry.
He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, I have learned never to say, 'Never again.
How does one person with great talents come to exert a force on the world? I think in Farmer’s case the answer lies somewhere in the apparent craziness, the sheer impracticality, of half of everything...
I have fought the long defeat and brought other people on to fight the long defeat, and I'm not going to stop because we keep losing. Now I actually think sometimes we may win. I don't dislike victory...
I stared at the faces of the dead students. You know, Zacharie, just looking at them, I can’t tell you which ones were Tutsis, which Hutus. Exactly! said Deo in a loud whisper. Evidently, one was supp...
If you do the right thing well, you avoid futility.
In many cases, a small and daily growing computer company did not fall on hard times because people suddenly stopped wanting to buy its products. On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxia...
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
In the modern computer, software has developed in such a way as to fill this role of go-between. On one end you have the so-called end user who wants to be able to order up a piece of long division, s...
It is not a large exaggeration to say that everything else in a computer exists in order to bring information swiftly to the ALU for manipulation; and for the ALU, adding is the mechanical equivalent...
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation. Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensu...
It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret.
It was an IBM machine, archaic now but gaudy then. The university owned it, in effect, and it lay inside a room that none but the machine’s professional caretakers could enter during the day. But Alsi...
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale.
One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, Computers are irrelevant. Building
Paul's face grew serious. 'I think whenever a people has enormous resources, it is easy for them to call themselves democratic. I think of myself more as a physician than an American. We belong to the...
Several talked about their flexible hours. No one keeps track of the hours we work, said Ken Holberger. He grinned. That’s not altruism on Data General’s part. If anybody kept track, they’d have to pa...
The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers.
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
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