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There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#around #becomes #being #between #calls

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#downside #environment #fertilizer #golf #great

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#being #break #country #explain #flattened

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe. ↗


— Bill Frist


#basis #globe #governing #must #our

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#basically #book #did #enormous #gave

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


— Thomas Friedman


#i #i am #just #mean #minnesota

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

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗


— Thomas Friedman


#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

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


— Thomas Friedman


#grow up #house #man #presidents #shape






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