In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

Cosmic Ordering is your one way ticket to prosperity.

I always prefer a room with full of darkness.because lights irritates me.

I was thinking...""We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.

It's impossible to lose that which does not belong to you.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.