Quote by Steven Spielberg: Always Wanting to Be a Director
“When I grow up, I still want to be a director.”
Steven Spielberg
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Guy Consolmagno on Talk-O-Matic and Early Chat Rooms
“One of the more popular activities was “Talk-O-Matic”. Five people at a time could write messages, and read each other’s messages, on the same screen. Today, Internet chat rooms work on the same principle. One of the remarkable new features of this page was that you could log in with an invented name, and pretend you were anyone you wanted – any name, any age, any gender. One favorite trick was to log in using the name of someone else already logged into the page, simply to confuse everyone else.”
Guy Consolmagno
Milton Friedman on Voluntary Exchange and Economic Benefit
“The key insight of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”
Milton Friedman
Slavery and History – Quote by Thomas Sowell
“Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.”
Thomas Sowell
Aldous Huxley Quote on Self-Discipline and Education
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Aldous Huxley
Henry Ford on Government, Prosperity and Self-Reliance
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
Henry Ford
“Do We Wish to Act Upon Our Knowledge?” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?”
Aldous Huxley
“Life Is Short” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything”
Aldous Huxley
Milton Friedman on Social Security and Pension Systems
“The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a “Ponzi” scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today’s young to pay today’s old and counted on tomorrow’s young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.”
Milton Friedman
Thomas Sowell on Propaganda and Education
“Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of ‘race, class and gender.'”
Thomas Sowell