Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedmanis an American journalist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
thinking government years
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we'll look back at the first decade of the 21st century when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we'd crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?
mistake men talking
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.
home thinking iraq
We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.
home behavior geopolitics
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
iraq may outcomes
Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.
thinking smartphones research
A 2011 report produced by Forrester Research estimated that the revenue generated through the sales of smartphone and tablet applications will reach $38 billion annually by 2015. Think about that: An industry that did not exist in 2006 will be generating $38 billion in revenues within a decade. . . .
als firsts terrorism
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.
kids one-day climate
Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
kids home thinking
We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand.
bigs breakthrough needed
Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed
citizens being-the-best global-citizen
We have to be the best global citizens we can be.
three firsts digging
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.
children giving people
Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.
visits-you might neighborhood
If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.