Tag: technology
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January 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, talian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. 1628 Christoph Bernhard, German Baroque composer…
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December 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, ‘Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.’ Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it’s embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.” — Michael J.…
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December 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. It is the proper sphere of government to create and enforce a framework of law that prohibits force and fraud. But it must refrain from specific economic interventions. Government’s main economic function…
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