It all comes down to control.
We keep focusing on doing the same thing better rather than trying something new. It is as if we are wearing blinders that let us see only one path and not the alternatives. ... There is little chance, much less financing, for the wild idea that might prove revolutionary. Organizations that give out "innovator" and "pioneer" awards claim to want to support new ideas but end up giving money to better ways of doing the same thing.
Misdiagnosis is "a window into the medical mind," revealing "why doctors fail to question their assumptions, why their thinking is sometimes closed or skewed, why they overlook the gaps in their knowledge."
Older media, with their entrenched infrastructures, are not crying out for innovation — at least not from an outsider. But that will not stop Google from trying.
There are few things in this world so stirring as a man who neither hates it nor imitates it, but in the name of what is best in it resists what is worst in it. The good man in a dark time is the unrepresentative man. He has the honor of an anomaly. He marks the distance that still has to be traveled. And how much, after all, can a single individual accomplish, all the uplift notwithstanding? Heroes are not policies.
"Unless you've been through it, you have no idea what it is like to live year-round in your second home."
Random drug tests have become routine, like pop quizzes for a student's body.
Spaniards are said to be the most enthusiastic brothel-goers — and cocaine users — in Europe.
"We call it the 'physical hyperlink.'"
There is precision in the fluff.
"Why wouldn't you want to harness that history?" Professor Bluestone said. "People going to do their work in that building would have that in the back of their mind. You would have a workplace with a soul."
"I am young enough to pursue another career if I choose to do so," she says.
"I loved all of it — the people, the work," he says. "I was in a position finally where people listened to me when I spoke. I wasn't just a Joe-Nobody. I contributed."
Japanese soldiers used civilians as shields against the Americans, and persuaded locals that victorious American soldiers would go on a rampage of killing and raping. With the impending victory of American troops, civilians committed mass suicide, urged on by fanatical Japanese soldiers. "There were some people who were forced to commit suicide by the Japanese Army," one old textbook explained. But in the revision ordered by the ministry, it now reads, "There were some people who were driven to mass suicide."
"Ninety percent of the calls made on cellphones are not critical or even substantive — mostly pure fluff and nonsense. Where are the casual conversations on the street, in the halls, when everyone is plugged into their own world?"
We do not know how not to be busy.
"In networks, what we're focused on is moving vast amounts of information around the world at light speed," he said.
"The consumer needs a reason to do it. They don't just wake up and say, 'Hey, let's go scan some bar codes.'"
"Like the sinking of the Titanic, catastrophes are not democratic." "The inequity of this whole situation is really enormous if you look at who's responsible and who's suffering as a result."
"Our focus today is on the winners."
Industry analysts say the 'tween market, defined as 8- to 12-year-olds, represents one of the major growth opportunities for the wireless industry.
The frequent-flier programs give away only empty seats, which is why the actual cost of the rewards is exceedingly cheap. "Microsoft does not seem to understand this," Professor Lederman said.
"Even people that supported the president aren't immune from having their own feelings and emotions."
Animals are for petting, not killing. Meat, unrelated, is for eating. And never the twain shall meet.
No countries have yet adopted circumcision as part of their AIDS prevention plans, "but I hope this recommendation will lead some to do so," said Dr. Kevin De Cock, director of the H.I.V.-AIDS department of the World Health Organization.
"Go ahead, touch it. See how soft it is."
"I'm quite flexible on what geometry we use," said the secretary.
A box is placed over the heads of performers or audience members who say something too risqué, in scarlet-letter fashion.
"I did it because it felt good and I didn't think I'd get caught. Do I consider myself a miracle? Yes, I do."
My days became an exasperating game of charades. My interior thoughts remained fluid, but the words to express them had vanished into some neurological Bermuda Triangle.
Why free tests? Cancer generates profits.
There is reason to believe that a new era of gene-based approaches to many cancers is at hand — especially if we have the political will to maintain the investment.
By a 10-1 Board of Supervisors' vote, San Francisco became the first major American city to ban the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags by supermarkets, drug stores and other large retailers.
One of the great pleasures of a reading life is picking up an old, familiar novel thinking that rereading it will mean a kind of reminding, when, in fact, the novel makes itself new all over again. It is as if the novel holds itself apart, waiting for real life to erase enough in us to make us suitable readers once more.
Given the Hamas buildup in men and new weaponry, Israel now viewed a battle in Gaza as "high-intensity warfare," no longer the kind of police-like operation still being carried out in the West Bank, where Israeli forces roam at will.
"In a way," the commander said, "it's a cease-fire that's not a cease-fire."
''It's inexcusable behavior," Bush said. ''I support the prime minister when he made it clear there were no quid pro quos."
"Congress is an incremental institution. That's its flaw and its virtue."
"Unfortunately, Valettopoli is something that is very much part of the Italian culture."
Turn over a scandal in Washington these days and the chances are you'll find Karl Rove.
"I think everyone regrets that this position has arisen. What we want is a way out of it.''
They are drowning in this. They use old, discredited tactics that they often don't even know are wrong.
75 percent of those surveyed said their colleagues used the "reply all" function far too often. Yet only 15 percent said they felt that they themselves did so.
Thousands took to Warsaw's streets to demand a complete ban on abortion, including in cases of rape or incest.
... the secretary "recognizes that we need to manage this place better."
The work always stands apart from the life, no matter how much we know. No amount of biography — no grasp of the details of the life as it was lived — ever accounts for the transfiguration that takes place in the work itself. You can search all you want in the life, but you will never find the ghostly separateness, the act of imagination, in which the work emerges.
The pace is slow because the problem is difficult, but we will get there.
With the approach of spring, violence has surged ...
If the death toll of 152 in the Tal Afar attack is correct, it was the highest total from a single bomb in the four-year-old war.
Nothing is going to change while there is money to be made off things like AdSense.
If a promising compound can't be patented, it is highly unlikely ever to make it to market — no matter how well it performs in the laboratory.
... the crash might be a "brilliant marketing ploy" ...
"It was a truck loaded with flour ... the TNT was mixed in with the flour and the electrical circuit was sophisticated. The checkpoint troops did not have enough experience to find it."
"Intuit has lobbied hard to make sure taxpayers aren't allowed to e-file directly to the I.R.S."
Some businesses create an environment where all notable performances are applauded with cake, pizza parties and other forms of back-patting.
Brazil will offer free satellite Internet connections to indigenous communities in the Amazon as part of its latest effort to crack down on illegal logging in the tropical rain forest.
As electronic production took over, the process of music-making got more abstract, and it got harder for a nonexpert to figure out exactly what tools a producer was using ... It has become much easier to see the product — the star, the video, the live performance — and much harder to picture the process.
I genuinely think I have learned more from my mistakes than I learned from my successes. It's absolutely critical that when working on any project you develop relationships with the people so you can hear what it is that they're really thinking. That means getting to know them. Get them sufficiently comfortable so you know what's going on.
"Interest ... flags when you don't have an infrastructure of informers around you."
It was not, of course, the scarves in and of themselves.
"Teen girls, they're too polite" to say they don't like a product. "It's always the teen boys that are the litmus test."
Being an amazing girl often doesn't feel like enough these days when you're competing with all the other amazing girls around the country who are applying to the same elite colleges that you have been encouraged to aspire to practically all your life.
Harvard College rejected 91 percent of applicants for the coming academic year, the highest rate in its history.
Muhammad knows when to encourage patience and faith in his followers and when to indulge their craving for rest and sex.
"What is 'success'?" the course introduction asked. "Is it a measure of one's financial worth? Moral perfection? Popularity? How do families, schools and popular culture invite us to think about success? And how are we encouraged to think about failure?"
The shootings devastated Iowa City and shocked a nation not normally used to thinking of physics as a life-and-death pursuit. Now they have been transformed into a celluloid nightmare for the rest of us.
The shootings happened around 5:15 p.m. in a store at Greenbriar Mall. The suspects, three young men, got away in a sport utility vehicle, police said.
1.6 million Americans — 65 percent of all applicants — had their claims for Social Security or Supplemental Security Income disability benefits rejected last year.
It's no exaggeration to compare him to James Brown. The only difference: James Brown was a bona fide star.
"For a radio salesperson, it is a fox-in-the-henhouse scenario."
