The Pragmatic Idealist

"A man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Cardinals Accused of Hacking Astros' Network   Air Force Must Cut Drone Flights Due to Lack of Pilots   Focusing on Women's Issues Shows that Everyone is Overworked   What Tim Cook Missed in his Defense of Privacy   Chip Makers Fight for Trade Deal

"It's no use saying 'we are doing our best'. You have to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill Royals Drawing Fans From Across the Country   Ex-FIFA Official Cites Onion Article in Self Defense   American Pharoah!   The Secret History of Seal Team 6

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A $1000 day in Paris for $100   What to Learn in College to Stay one Step Ahead of Computers   A Tech Boom Aimed at the Few, Instead of the World   A Decade After Katrina, Pointing the Finger More Squarely at the Corps

"A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes the same mistake again.  But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether." - Roy H. Williams Robotica - The Limits of Autonomous Robots   In the end, Science works Against the Patriots   Oculus to Ship VR Headset in 2016   Triumph of the Unthinking

"When spring comes, even a false spring, there are no problems except where to be happiest." - Ernest Hemingway Tests Indicate NASA's "Impossible" New Drive Will Work in Space   Baseball Aprils that Matter   The Rise of Emoji Affects Language   A Math Problem from Singapore Makes the Rounds

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery   Cyber Warfare   Less Hype, More Money in Data Science   Gordon's Homer One of 2015's Longest   History Weighs Heavily on Justices as They Consider Same Sex Marriage

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time." - Mark Twain How Success Almost Killed a Game   Claws v. Feathers   Connecticut - First in Flight?   Google Expected to Face Antitrust Charges in Europe

"I have the simplest tastes.  I am always satisfied with the best." - Oscar Wilde Last Stand for House that Wouldn't Budge   Gilded Age Redux   High Tech Home Services   Hackathons   Royals Game!

"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." - Thomas Merton The World According to Xi Jinping   Missing Sailor Found After More than Two Months at Sea   California Imposes Water Restrictions   semi-Autonomous Driving has Arrived

"If we had no winter, spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet The Rock'n'Roll Casualty who Became a War Hero   Anglo Saxon Cow Bile and Garlic Remedy Kills MRSA   Controversy over New Daily Show Host's Tweets

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as though the sand were stone." - Jorge Luis Borges Mutual Funds in Tech Startups   US Seeks Offensive Cyberattack Capacity   Bill Would Limit Use of Student Data

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy on building the new, rather than fighting the old." - Socrates Supreme Court Divided on Health Care   Rogue Pilot Blamed for Malaysia Jet Disappearance   World of Venture Capital Under Microscope   Quadriplegic Woman Flies F35 with Nothing but her Thoughts   Proposed Google Algorithm Changes

"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley   Best Car Commercial Ever   European Interest Rates go through the Looking Glass   Four Crazy Ideas from Stanford about the Future of College   Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Game of Thrones Bloopers!   Can an App be too Successful?   Lenovo, you had one job   Dutch Offer Preview of Net Neutrality

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." -  Confucius LG-Samsung Washing Machine Spat   What do People Actually Order at Chipotle?   US Embedded Spyware in Overseas Computers, Report Claims   Mars One Mission 100 Final Candidates for Permanent Mars Colony   Intel Undervalued under ModernGraham Approach

"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France The Stanford Undergrad and the Mentor   Seized Laptop Fuels Raids on Al Qaeda   Stewart to Leave Daily Show on High Note   How one Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco's Life

"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge" - Friedrich Nietzsche   Report Sees Weak Security in Cars' Wireless Systems VPNs Dissolve National Boundaries Cayman GT4 Warning System for Solar Storms is Kept on Earth for Now

"Forget injuries. Never forget kindnesses" - Confucius   The Cayman GT4 is real! Oh my . . . US to Collect Genetic Data to Hone Care Measles Proves a Delicate Issue for GOP Field

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." - Aristotle The Kansas City Royals have Changed the Bobblehead Game Forever New Rules in China Upset Tech Companies as Protectionist Same-Sex Marriage Foes Dig in at the State Level Virtual Reality May be on the Verge of Taking Off

"Live as long as you can. Die when you can't help it." - Henry Brown Bored and Brilliant   As Playboy and Penthouse Fade, Newer Magazines Tilt Artistic   Library Visit, Then Held at Gunpoint

"Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable." - William Pollard Microsoft's HoloLens   Smartphones Don't Make us Dumb   Google Invests in SpaceX   If a Car is Going to Drive Itself, it may as well Park Too

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened." - Winston Churchill The Wrong Response to Charlie Hebdo   3D Printed Tumor   Supreme Court to Decide Gay Marriage Case   The Least Economically Diverse Top College   A Twelve Hour Window for Healthy Eating

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." - Niccolo Machiavelli Intuit Users up in Arms Your Online Avatar may Reveal More About you than you Think The Doctor Who Championed Hand Washing and Briefly Saved Lives New Delay in Bertha Rescue

"To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction, is to live twice" - Khalil Gibran New Hubble "Pillars of Creation" Picture Ship Grounded off England to Save It Debate over German Identity Reignites

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else." - Ralph Waldo Emerson The. Best. Thing. Ever. The Internet of Things Hits Homes Space X Hopes to Land a Rocket - on Earth