Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?

Having gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not deliver it.

My knight, ” I said jokingly before I had a chance to stop myself. Too late I realized. ~Charlie~

But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me?

It’s the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.

Knowledge is power is time is money. Meaning that if I shared knowledge, it would tantamount to sharing power or money.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.