It's a little bit like the Soviet Union. You know, they are telling their people, the Communist state is going to have this wonderful future, but it never happened. . . . And of course, it's good, but whether our expectations are too high is something that we're going to find out. The New York Times, March 27, 2001. It's going to be impossible to run for office without knowing a little Spanish.
Art is fundamentally unlike science.
Science is a crescendo, art is an expanding circle. The modern American law reform movement, at least the reformers who wrote the model penal code, clearly recognized a broad defense of necessity, or justification as they called it, which would permit, in some cases, the intentional killing of an innocent person in order to save more than one life. I think that this is, in some sense, a slippery slope. When choosing a computer or operating system, people should have a good reason to upgrade. With a downturn, we always see voluntary quits fall and involuntary separations increase.