James Gleick book Genius
James Gleick (1992). Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Vintage Books
Source: 1996 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, YouTube video with quote at 2:41:46 of 4:54:01 in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YptOBQTb14
James Gleick book Genius
James Gleick (1992). Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Vintage Books
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
As quoted in "The Heresy That Made Them Rich" by Joseph Nocera, in The New York Times (29 October 2005) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E1D71E3FF93AA15753C1A9639C8B63
“Corporations are people, my friend … course they are!”
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
Speech in Iowa, August 2011, quoted in [2011-08-12, ‘Corporations Are People,’ Romney Tells Iowa Hecklers Angry Over His Tax Policy, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/us/politics/12romney.html]
2011
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Robert L. Heilbroner book The Worldly Philosophers
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen, p. 224
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925) American politician
“The Danger Threatening Representative Government” Speech (1897) http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/pdfs/lessons/EDU-SpeechTranscript-SpeechesLaFollette-DangerThreatening.pdf <br class="br">Context: Since the birth of the Republic, indeed almost within the last generation, a new and powerful factor has taken its place in our business, financial and political world and is there exercising a tremendous influence. The existence of the corporation, as we have it with us today, was never dreamed of by the fathers…The corporation of today has invaded every department of business, and it’s powerful but invisible hand is felt in almost all activities of life. The effect of this change upon the American people is radical and rapid. The individual is fast disappearing as a business factor and in his stead is this new device, the modern corporation.
Neil Fligstein (1951) American sociologist
Source: The transformation of corporate control, 1993, p. 55
“Well — yes. In modern times, of course.”
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American theoretical physicist and professor of physics
Answer to a student at Rochester University who asked whether the bomb exploded at Alamogordo was the first one to be detonated, as quoted in Doomsday, 1999 A.D. (1982) by Charles Berlitz, p. 129
William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Speech at annual dinner of Fordham University Alumni Association, New York City (February 9, 1939), reported in James Allen, Democracy and Finance (1940, reprinted 1969), p. 291. This was Douglas's last speech as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission before his appointment to the Supreme Court.
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