The Pragmatic Idealist

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." - Gail Sheehy   What Wellesley Learned After it Stopped Giving out so Many A's Don't Want me to Recline? Pay me not to  This guy has an interesting point.  I disagree with several of his premises much of his reasoning, but it's a good conversation. Looking to the Future of Data Science Uber's Secret Agents: When Poaching Becomes Unethical

"Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories." - Polybius   A New Era When Cars Talk to Each Other France Acknowledges Economic Malaise, Blaming Austerity What a Difference a Day Makes

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." - Isaac Asimov Mother Cat Adopting Baby Bunny is Basically an IRL Disney Movie In the Sharing Economy, Workers find both Opportunity and Insecurity Web Trolls May be Winning as Incivility Increases The Rise of 3D Printed Guns   New to the Archaeologist's tool kit: the Drone Kidneys for Sale

"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is." - Blaise Pascal   Advisor to Chinese Government on Qualcomm is Dismissed Michael J. Fox Foundation Turns to Tech   Intel Agrees to Buy Avago's Networking Business for $650 Million First Female Winner for Maths Medal

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own" - Benjamin Disraeli   When a Car Loan Means Bankruptcy Lyft Hopes to Coax Commuters Away from Their Cars Untangling the Mystery of Spider Silk Intel's Broadwell Chips Will Make Full Fledged PCs as Tiny as Tablets

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in government, is to live under a government of worse men." - Plato   Capitalizing on U.S. Airstrikes, Kurds Retake Iraqi Towns A Death Highlights Racing's History of Confrontations   What we Don't Know About Tony Stewart and Last Night's Crash China's Energetic Enforcement of Antitrust Rules Alarms Foreign Firms Awesome Windowless Jet

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously" - Hubert H. Humphrey   Are you, like, African-AMERICAN or AFRICAN-American? Sexism, only this time about men   Searchers Closer than Ever to WWII Sub off Oregon Stranger than fiction. Iraq Airstrikes May Continue for Months, Obama Says

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge US Jets and Drones Attack Militants in Iraq A Two Step Plan to Stop Hackers   Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon CrossFit Flirting - Talk Burpee to Me

"It takes less time to do the right thing than it does to explain why you did it wrong." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Bergdahl Details Disappearance to General Leading Inquiry Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take on Amazon Aiming to be the Netflix of Ebooks What Happens When Two Women Drive Around in a Ferrari Fascinating!

"The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw Rosetta Spacecraft Set for Close Study of Comet This Stealth Gray and Orange Bespoke Mclaren P1 is a Symphony of Evil The Crossfit Case for Equal Pay Extracting Audio from Visual Information

"Character is much easier kept than recovered" -  Thomas Paine Never Speed in Virginia - Lessons from my Three Days in Jail  Holy crap! Man - words of wisdom here.  I had no idea. U.S. Starts Civil Inquiry on Subprime Car Lending Maybe we are learning a little something. Maybe. A little. You Won't Meet the Beatles in Space

"This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him" - William Lyon Phelps Sympathy for the Devil Summer Job? Time to Start a Roth IRA How to tell someone's age when all you know is her name You don't need dreams when you sleep in this bedroom

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway    American Doctor with Ebola Arrives in US for Treatment Where Tech is Taking us: a Conversation with Intel's Genevieve Bell Reanimating Bertha, a Mechanical Behemoth Slumbering Under Seattle NASA Validates 'Impossible' Space Drive The Ten Most Unbelievable Airplane Junkyards in the World