Nations that forget their history lack the power to create it.
Month: October 2015
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Productivity Leaps
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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The Meaning Of History
Voltaire thought that history is the record of the crimes and absurdities of mankind. I thought that was a very unworthy definition. I should say history is the record of the activities of mankind and it has two sides — one is the crimes and absurdities and the other is the contributions to civilization, the lasting developments which enabled each generation to proceed with a larger heritage than the one before. And that to me is the meaning of history.