This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would... →
Tim O'Reilly
I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that... →
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships... →
P. J. O'Rourke
People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we... →
Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically... →
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a... →
Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of... →
Joyce Carol Oates
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
Conor Oberst