, and who knows if it is really confucius or not, and seek revenge, and you shall dig two graves, onceor yourself. as a public figure, the best defense and again, i will not try to get into any particular story, and this is not about peter or gawker or any particular thing, but the best defense to speech that you don't like about yourself as a public figure is to develop a thick skin. it is the really only effective defense, because you can't stop it. you know, you are going to be misunderstood. if you are doing anything interesting in the world, you will have critics. the absolutely can't tolerate the critics then don't do anything new or interesting. >> so here we are at the conference where entrepreneurs are meeting with the media, and are we going the witness some kind of showdown? have we already witnessed it? where are we in that narrative? >> well, we have nick stanchion coming thursday and we have invited peter theil, and he put out the open debate letter saying, hey, come on and debate me. we have not heard back from p e peter theil, but there are a lot of the vcs and others i

no bouncy, the son of confucius declared. go where he please. i will because, it you flats new -- they cried savagely. he sprang forward and seized the offending chief mercilessly. bring a rope, boys, and we will have a big. it was down in the rough code that a china men was not it for anything else but to hang. at once, wyoming, a gun cattle driver into the dime novel hero, approach. what are you going to do it that there chinaman, old man? hang him. maybe you have something to chip in. maybe i have, they hero hero declared. what was he doing? nothing. positively nothing. what are you going to do about it my young gobbler? i am going to persuade you to drop all notion. he quickly whipped out a pair of revolvers. take your hands off that china man and let him go or i will put a semi-colon between your eyes. a murmur of disapproval came from the crowd. a pretty mistress approached with a pair of silver mounted revolvers in her hands. by the way, everyone in dime novels carries weapons. approaching with a pair of silver mounted revolvers, the youn

by the previous dynasty and were bringing back the entire writings of confucius on stone. which, you know, is really durable but not much more mobility. and it's not by coincidence that it was around this time that they adopted paper. >> so i just wanted to ask you a few career questions, mark. because you've written some really impressive books. do you have a favorite book? that you've written? >> i don't know. that's, it's really hard to answer. you know, i love short story writing. i love -- i have three collections of fiction of short stories. i love writing short stories. maybe those are my favorite. but i, you know, i just work and work on a book until i think it's pretty good -- [laughter] you know? til i'm happy with it. so then you end up liking them all. >> right. so now you're in this, you're with, i think, just to summarize, i think your best known -- you're best known for these kind of books that do take a narrow subject and broaden it in a sweeping way historically, you know, with cod and with salt. do you get a lot of suggestions on other objects that you sh

really confucius or not.ut seek revenge and you should dig two graves, one for yourself. as a public figure, the best defense against -- again, i'm not going to get into any particular story. this is not about peter or gawker or any particular thing, but the best defense to a speech that you don't like about yourself as a public figure is to develop a thick skin. it's really the only effective defense because you can't stop it. you know, you are going to be misunderstood. if you're doing anything interesting in the world, you're going to have critics. the only -- if you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting. >> interesting layer of conversation on all the things in tech we normally talk about at code. coming up we'll talk to jim bankoff of vox, we'll talk about the conference business, mark fields of ford will sit down and bill gurley and yuri milnor, talk about valuations, cash burn and more as our coverage starts here at code, which is just about getting started here 7

even confucius in china had something like a golden rule 2,500 years ago that goes something like this, don't do to others what you don't want to have done to you. but george had a temper. i saw him loose his temper a time or twovment but he lost it when he should have. today we had a round table, mr. president, and the round table included folks from -- someone from g.a.o., general accountability office. every two years, as the presiding officer know, the g.a.o. puts out a high-risk list. i describe it as high-risk ways of wasting people's money, taxpayers' money. and they lay out all these different things this should be done in agencies that -- where they've done -- would not only provide better service for citizens of this country but also do so in a more cost-effective way. and george was always really interested in how do we get better results for less money? always interested in that. and we, at this hearing -- the round table today, which when he convened it, today, with workes who were working to get off of g.a.o.'s high-risk list, and in order to do that, you have to figure o

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