#nat

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. ↗

— Eric Liu

#air force #chinese #during #force #general

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. ↗

— Eric Liu

#calls #constitution #critical #critical role #demand

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#comes #costume #embody #especially #language

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#asian #concerned #go #issue #racial

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#children #combination #could #feeling #go

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. ↗

— Titus Livius

#certain #dissimilar #natural #nature #nevertheless

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#complex #darwinian #dynamics #evolved #more

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#business sense #combination #great #intuition #investment