A.R. Von Quotes
What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.
I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book.
It's hard to think of a time when I'm not working, but when that is the case, I like to travel and eat good food.
I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."
I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.
But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.
The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money
none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
