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Politics follows the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules. Apple is now worth more than 10...

Banks and other asset holders are stuffed to the gills with cash. Assets of all kinds are overvalued. They’re going...

I was blind to my own good fortune.

Vint Cerf is a living example of what the Internet can be. 

Stephen Smale’s heart has been beating for almost 90 years and he still wants to know why. He has a...

Turing Award winner Martin Hellman has created a second life, as an activist. His new life opened up as soon...

Schwetak Patel ieems to think faster than he can talk, and talk faster than reporters interviewing him can type. He...

What’s depressing is that we’re just starting to understand how thought happens and how to model it. In both cases...

Getting people paid, and getting people taught, should be where the profits from Moore’s Law of Software are going. But...

Times of peril are always times of violence. The Civil War was violent. The 1890s were violent. World War II...