#mat

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#because #crime #criminal #criminal law #denounce

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #competent #country #development #direction

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#contend #fearful #feel #i #information

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#black and white #go #information #lie #never

I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#i #information #interested #internet #spreads

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#ban #basis #fourteenth #history #matter

If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#approximately #bush #bush administration #discuss #explosion

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices. ↗

— John Sununu

#accurately #cannot #choices #contrast #differentiate

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job. ↗

— John Sununu

#because #behave #bureaucrats #different #differently

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards. ↗

— John Sununu

#clear #dealt #interstate #matter #must