Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.
Thomas FriedmanIf e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.
Thomas FriedmanIn the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
Thomas FriedmanAll one needs to do is just to go to any hospital in America and see the number of Pakistani or Indian or Lebanese, or Syrian, or Egyptian doctors, who are either first generation or themselves immigrants, to know, and I'm a big believer - brains are distributed evenly around the world. What aren't distributed evenly are opportunities, stable government, educational institutions, etc.
Thomas Friedman