No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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