Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
The big advancement in our BCM7445 home gateway chip is that it uses the next-generation compression technology called HEVC - High-Efficiency Video Coding.
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.
A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
I concluded that Donald Trump lacked the temperament, the judgment and the self-discipline to heal the divisions in our country - which are very real - and to be commander in chief.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.
After Charlottesville, our politics have now borne witness to a U.S. president at times openly defending neo-Nazis and white supremacists before condemning them.
We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.
