Economists often like startling theorems results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice ' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions do not try to break them but bend them with gentleness and time.

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

However I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

But the technology was accessible which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.