The Pragmatic Idealist

"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