#me

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#breakthrough #come #could #egypt #firmly

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#i #i am #just #mean #minnesota

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#authentic #been #care #critic #energy

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot. ↗

— Max Frisch

#least #person #police #something #sorts

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#began #being #came #companies #era

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff? ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#climate #doing #free #get #kind

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#grow up #house #man #presidents #shape

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#cards #energy #equipment #get #go

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#car #coming #dinner #going #half

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #conflict #countries #dell #each