Unintended Consequences

I was wondering about a quote from C.

The following is based on what I learned reading a few books written by people who lived through an actual (or attempted) national communist transition.

It starts to feel like something is off, that on a visit to a library — not a glass and concrete one, but one built with brick or stone or leaded glass — one should encounter not books, but a traveling exhibition or a diorama about innovation of pre-Colum…

“I’m supposed to graduate summa cum laude so I need an A in this class.”

Only occasionally does a quote make me drop a book.

How do you guide your children to have a successful career?

When physicist Richard Feynman returned from college his father asked him something, as he later recounted: “‘When an atom makes a transition from one state to another it emits a particle of light called a photon… Well is the photon in the atom ahead of t…

A quote from Peter Drucker’s book Adventures of a Bystander always struck me: “I once, as a boy, looked at the suits my grandfather had left behind — he had died in 1899 when my mother was fourteen.

“As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs.”

In the early 2000s while in Mexico City I ended up on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.