The Pragmatic Idealist

"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