If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with extremely tricky technological problems. Putting a huge gun on a moving platform and ensuring that it could hit another moving target was one of the hardest technical problems of the early twentieth century.
Noam ChomskyEverything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you're willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing.
Noam ChomskyThe intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.
Noam ChomskyEvery great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.
Noam ChomskyThe number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions.
Noam Chomsky