Category Archive

Kids don’t want quality time. They want quantity time — big, stinking, lazy, nonproductive quantity time
Al Franken

Intellectual property is the oil of the twenty first century
Mark Getty

It’s not an issue of whether the rating changes now. It’s whether the markets start pricing in some change. This is all about incremental change.
Mohammed El-Erian, Pimco’s chief executive officer, on CNBC

Every year we lie to you and every year you come back for more. You don’t need an upfront. You need therapy. We completely lie to you, and then you pass those lies onto your clients.
Jimmy Kimmel

The grand edifice of brand-name consumerism rests on the narcissistic fantasy that everyone else cares about what we buy.
John Tierney

My experience is what I agree to attend to.
William James

Relationships are the key to happiness. “Happiness is love. Full Stop,
David Brooks on George Vaillant

we were faced with a condition and not a theory
FDR

Promise Academy eliminated the achievement gap between its black students and the city average for white students.
David Brooks on Geoffrey Canada’s Promise Academy in Harlem

Republicans are so much the party of individualism and freedom these days that they are no longer the party of community and order.
David Brooks