Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire"

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"Culture is nested in context, not genes."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut do you want? Which barber do you want? All those things can and will be done by a call center far away."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye."

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century