Thomas L. Friedman quotes:

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.

No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.