"I stared as one -- and then the other -- of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center collapsed. And then I smiled. Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased."
In 1985, when I graduated, a Wall Street recruiter actually told me that, with a last name like Georgiopoulos, I’d have trouble getting an investment banking job.
When we talk to our children about sex, about alcohol and drugs, or about the dangers of the Internet, we give them limitations and warnings. But when it comes to the subject of work, we tell them that they can be whatever they aspire to be; that they should aim high, work hard and dream big. What we rarely do is tell them how hard some days are. Or that along the road, they might have to compromise, or detour, or backtrack. To warn them would be to discourage them. Or so our thinking goes.
At times, the software industry appears to be racing downhill while still trying to build its car.
"It was just a big fireball coming at me."
As he has waged battles big and small, he can be heard bellowing, "Tom!" several times a day.
"One block from Vox Pop!" he exclaimed. "You know Vox Pop?"
There is probably no better guide to where the court is headed than in a careful inventory of where Justice O’Connor has been.
"It’s understandable that you would look at someone’s twitter ..."
"The hardest-hitting, cruelest, most affecting collection of sound and image this side of Buñuel"
The established physics of Washington: rapidly diminishing support in one’s own party times the number of instances in which one has failed to convincingly explain away accusations of incompetence or malfeasance equals the certainty of rapid resignation.
Romney is fond of PowerPoint and terms like "strategic audits" and "wow moments."
"I’m not a big-game hunter," said Mitt Romney, campaigning in Indianapolis. "I’ve made that very clear. I’ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will."
