I just felt my first earthquake! News reports indicate that a magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred near Cuba and was reportedly felt in portions of Florida. The funny part is that I spent years living in California and never felt an earthquake there, yet I felt one in Florida. cbsnews.com/miami/news/cuba-…

narrative closure (noun): The point at which a person stops seeking further evidence because they have accepted a satisfying explanation as true or sufficient, regardless of whether it reflects objective reality.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. -Ted Turner

The US is no longer the global leader in research output. In the CWTS Leiden output focused rankings, Chinese universities now surpass US institutions. In 2010, only one Chinese university ranked in the top 25. Today, 19 do, including the top two. US universities need to refocus on what truly drives academic excellence. traditional.leidenranking.co…

Not everyone claps when you win. -inspired by Chanakya

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw

How would @GoogleAI ever get the impression that George Washington was black? Image: Black actor @ChrisisSinging playing George Washington in @HamiltonMusical. @sundarpichai @joshwoodward

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. -Walter Cronkite

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that stupid people are cocksure while intelligent people are filled with doubt. -Bertrand Russell

RT @Sterio_Media: Reversing Citizens United is necessary to curb unchecked corporate influence and restore fair, transparent, and accountab…

Excited to share that I’ve launched Sterio.Media. We address the growing problem of fake news. Dr. Steven Pinker, Harvard Professor, said that "This is an ingenious idea." Click on the link below and let me know what you think. #fakenews #media #journalism

"I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration." - John Adams, July 3, 1776

When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, 'No, I went to films.' -Quentin Tarantino

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. -Fred "Mister" Rogers

It's disheartening to consider how many well-intentioned individuals were oppressed by the Democratic machine but lacked @realDonaldTrump or @elonmusk influence and resilience to fight back.

Just exchanged eye contact with Bryant Gumbel @GramercyTavern. It reminded me of how much I miss @RealSportsHBO.

I'm scheduled on a flight out of SRQ tomorrow at 3:10pm. What do you think my odds are that it will depart on time? Be canceled? 😳

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." -Warren Buffett, 94 today

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries” -Winston Churchill

The Ivy League is Overrated @chamath on E193: "We have fallen into this trap of saying that these highly credentialed schools, that cost $60K-$80K/year, graduate the best kids." "And I don't think that that's true." "They're not the smartest kids." "They're not the hardest working kids." "So we should stop saying top schools." "These Ivy League schools are not the top schools."