Between Holberger and Veres there exists a kind of technical understanding that outruns the powers of speech. Most Hardy Boys share this specialist’s ESP to some degree. It’s a feeling that some good...
At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic. His recommenda...
As for the name of the theory behind selling enough stock to become millionaires, Richman told me, I don’t know how you put it in the vernacular. We called it the Fuck You Theory.
About ten other young, male undergraduates regularly attended these sessions of midnight programming. It was a whole subculture. It’s been popularized now, but it was a secret cult in my days, said Al...
Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the...
To understand Russia, to understand Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Boston, identity politics, Sri Lanka, and Life Savers, you have to be on top of this hill, he announced in a light tone as we studied...
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.
Adopting a remote, managerial point of view, you could say that the Eagle project was a case where a local system of management worked as it should: competition for resources creating within a team in...
Executives might make the final decisions about what would be produced, but engineers would provide most of the ideas for new products. After all, engineers were the people who really knew the state o...
I think that the rich can always call themselves democratic, but the sick people are not among the rich. I thought he was done, but he was only pausing for the interpreter to catch up. Look, I’m very...
And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to...
If disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, then epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life.