#world

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#books #days #infamous #listen #made

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#i #india #realized #silicon #silicon valley

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #china #coastal #come #computer

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#flat #most #our #political #realized

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#before #care #collaborate #compete #connect

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

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