{"author":"Thomas L. Friedman","author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["egocentrism","perspective"],"id":29216,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"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.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["curiosity","openness","parenthood","questioning"],"id":42278,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["discipleship","humility","maturation"],"id":44354,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["communication","credibility","culture"],"id":97340,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["freedom","openness","radicals","terrorists"],"id":97813,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["environment"],"id":101334,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["curiosity","sovereignty-of-god"],"id":130073,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["assumptions","extremism","ideology","openness","prejudice"],"id":153136,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"Culture is nested in context, not genes.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["adaptability","humility","openness"],"id":193446,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"},{"text":"Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["maturation","parenthood","passion"],"id":202981,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}