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...
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...
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.
Because if you’re going to make a small inexpensive computer you have to sell a lot of them to make a lot of money. And we intend to make a lot of money.
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...
In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their own ends, the pieces of the design enshrined in ideologies, which erased...
People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be. - Paul Farmer
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...
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...
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...
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.
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