“With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.” RealPossibilitySkillsAccountsPressureManagementCrisisCurrentsOilUncertaintyTestedDeficitCrisis ManagementManagement Skills Author:Lawrence Summers
“We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.” MindHumansLinesTechnologyShapesSkillsToolsCurrentsAidsUsersBack WhenTailorsAdept Book:Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence Source: Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
“One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this training will not only teach specific skills such as how to change diapers or how to play responsively with toddlers, but will raise parents' self-confidence at the same time. The proposed cure, in short, is to reform and educate the people with the problem.” PeopleSelfPlayProblemParentTeachExampleTheorySkillsTrainingRaisesCurrentsSelf ConfidenceReactionsCuresReformParenthoodEducateProposalDiapersToddler Author:Kenneth Keniston
“In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.” WorldGovernmentSchoolViewsNeededSkillsMembersFaultsCurrentsMonopolyBeing MeSchool SystemDropoutsSecondary Education Author:Milton Friedman
“The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.” PeopleIfsWayLongHas BeensSkillsCapableStandardsGoldDemocratCurrentsRageDebateImmigrationBest WayObjectivesDependentVotersProvidingGold Standard Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.” PeopleIfsWorldRealityLeftDealsSkillsWeaponsCurrentsBad ThingsComic BookEscapism Author:Neil Gaiman