Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment... →
James Surowiecki
Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to... →
Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax... →
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's... →
I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.
Helen Suzman
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage -... →
David Suzuki
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and... →
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By... →
We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of... →