Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.