i love your book on einstein. thank you for that. >> he is a really cool dude. >> recently i was watching c-span, there was a woman on, temple grandan, and she has written widely and she is an expert on a number of topics, she has aspergers, and she said a einstein almost certainly had it. >> i addressed that in any book a little bit. i do not think that those of us who are not doctors, and even those who are doctors can diagnosis somebody a hundred years later. i do think that einstein was very slow in learning how to talk as a child, so slow they consulted a doctor and his nickname was the dopey juan. he didn't think verbally. he didn't think, you know in words. so he thought in pictures. he was always doing thought experiments in his head. what you and i call day dreaming. but if your einstein you call them thought experiments, and that visual imagination allowed item see math mall matt cal equations as the good lord's brush stroke. he could picture a concept. he could picture maxwell's equations and how they f

and just as einstein wrote my father is my hero. and i said that makes sense. okay smarty-pants what was i doing when i was ready not kissinger? she said well that, you're writing about your dark side. [laughter] all of my career i've always been interested in technology and the role of technology. and technology is changing the way we do narrative storytelling. paper is a wonderful, wonderful technology for narrative. electronic media isn't great for narrative. you hop around, it you jump around from link to link. as opposed to sitting around the fireplace and let me make it a narrative. that is why i think in the future electronic media will always coexist with paper. i think we will someday realize that paper is an awesomely good technology and as much as we admire electronic ways of getting information, if we had been getting our information electronically for 400 years, on screens. and some latter day gutenberg had come along i can say take all that and put them on a page and put it together and deliver it to your doorstep and you can take it into the back

this is the einstein volume. author of watches the greatest textbook for students in quantum theory in relativity. archibald wheeler was one of the great physicist of our time, hence the physics department of princeton and university of texas -- i was sitting in a restaurant in denver, a japanese restaurant outside it. studying edwin taylor;''s physis book. reading with great intensity. eating might sushi and seaweed or whatever. i was just very conscience that there was a presence standing next to me. i looked up. and there is this handsome, tall, from sweden, and he said, that book. where did you get that book? i said i am working with the author. he said, you are working with the author? can i sit down? he said that with me. he had a girlfriend of in the distance it standing there. i have total attention. he read that book in sweden and said, that is the greatest text book i ever read. we talked about it. a few days later, i was with a friend of mine and i told her this and she said, where did you get that boo

this is the einstein volume. he is the author of watches the greatest textbook for students in quantum theory in relativity. archibald wheeler was one of the great physicist of our time, hence the physics department of princeton and university of texas -- i was sitting in a restaurant in denver, a japanese restaurant outside it. studying edwin taylor;''s physis book. reading with great intensity. eating might sushi and seaweed or whatever. i was just very conscience that there was a presence standing next to me. i looked up. and there is this handsome, tall, from sweden, and he said, that book. where did you get that book? i said i am working with the author. he said, you are working with the author? can i sit down? he said that with me. he had a girlfriend of in the distance it standing there. i have total attention. he read that book in sweden and said, that is the greatest text book i ever read. we talked about it. a few days later, i was with a friend of mine and i told her this and she said, where did you ge

. >> i love your book on einstein. thank you for that. it's just wonderful. >> he's a really cool dude. >> recently i was watching c-span there was a woman on name temple grandin and she said she has asked burgers. she has written widely and is saving expert. and she says that einstein almost certainly had the syndrome. .. the lightning strikes seem simultaneous to one person, one seems simultaneous to the other, and that's when you get relativity, which is time is relative depending on your state of motion. all these things are visual thought experiment to the reason i say that is maybe that is still verbal learning ability wasn't a handicap, wasn't a disability but was a different way of learning things, and one of the things i've learned whether i look at bill gates, very in lewicke but now sort of tops the skill and emotional intelligence or bill clinton who goes a little bit over the scale and emotional bonding we are all very different and when we talk about our education system we should remember people are different and we don't n

and now as we move towards einstein 3, those same concerns are in place. so we want you to work with us to make sure that we institutionalized the protection of privacy for american citizens on personal information that's not needed for our security. but then secondly, we want to make sure that we have in place adequate laws and structures so that we can counter the vulnerability that bad players are trying to perpetrate on the united states. i'm particularly mindful that nsa located in maryland, the premier collection agency in the world is actively working on this. and i just call to your attention to give this matter the highest attention. >> senator, i couldn't agree with you more. indeed, i believe that the cybermission is one of the major missions of the whole homeland security environment. it's also a rapidly evolving one and changing one almost by the time you are talking about a particular intrusion, it is passed and you're on to the next one. so i just want to clarify if i might one thing. and that is -- i don't think there is any confusion at le

he was here for his biographies of kissinger, benjamin franklin and albert einstein. in the past he has been the chairman and ceo of cnn and managing editor of time and then i just actually read this this afternoon. in november the past month the couple of weeks ago he was nominated by president obama to be the chairman of the broadcasting board of governors, and that is a body that runs voice of america and radio free europe and other international broadcasts run by the government. in what i felt was an engaging introduction to american sketches, walter isaacson shares the drive he has had since his youth in new orleans to become a great writer. he was in a place where he was soaking up the atmosphere of tennessee williams and william faulkner but he was also there until walker percy's death. but then before he went off to be a rhodes scholar the summer before, he was still on his great writer mission and offered a job as a summer intern by "the washington post" and he turned it down. he turned it down to become a stevedore on a derrick barge on the mississippi and t

that is not a non sequitur as they both had very serious scientific capabilities and einstein came from cirque, lisa wagner who basically invented the phrase nuclear fission lim chin this week in. there fitting serious programs and a documentation from the mid-60s fifth showing there were focused on the inventory of 250 nuclear weapons but yet happily what happened is the internal democratic process worked and within those countries that the local process people began to "esquire" redoing this and how much does it cost? those states concluded nuclear weapons really were not worth it because they were not weapons and decided resources and political capital could be sent anywhere so switzerland and sweden were to of the first nations to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. the other couple states that were embryonic states were brazil and argentina. and the '70s they had the same cozy relationship has in dat and pakistan today. descendants of the spanish and portuguese history i believe they created uruguay just to keep those countries' support. when the military dictators came over

i mean einstein said the harmony of natural law repeals intelligence of such superiority that compared with that of a systematic thinking and acting of mankind is but an utterly insignificant reflection. he thought it all made sense. we had to discover this sense. theology at its highest level would say the same thing. it isn't accidental. oxygen isn't accidental and as you describe the linkage, the linkage of the progress is and accidental. i have a scientists only recently that a problem with most people's world view is that they do not consider the future, they consider that the future is something that happens to them, not something that they create. just focusing on that accidental part, what do you think? >> no, i think there's a lot to what you say. the way i would phrase it is that, that in the long run, that nature has a way of turning accidents into non-accidents, into useful things and into making it seem like it had a purpose though yeah, if you give it enough evolutionary time, that someone will figure out a way to make this substance useful. we have skeletons because ours

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albert einstein once said, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." even though their stimulus bill hasn't created a single job and has resulted in 10% unemployment, house democrats have brought to the floor a stimulus 2 bill that continues to expand numerous provisions of their failed stimulus 1 bill. and here's a graphic depiction of this insanity. how does spending more on the bureau of reclamation create more jobs? how does transit capital assistance now create jobs now than it didn't before? and how did loan guarantees create jobs now when they didn't before? this is a son of stimulus bill. let's stop the insanity. vote no. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: who seeks recognition? the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. obey: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, the chairman of the banking committee, mr. frank. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts for three minutes. mr. frank: madam speaker, the assertion that the e

as albert einstein said, the most powerful force on earth is not nuclear energy, it's the power of compoundingst you. it also means when you act sooner rather than later the less draconian changes has to be made, the better ability to plan. so let's act sooner rather than later. taxes are going up on a lot more than those making $250,000 or more. why? mass. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i want to thank you for being at this hearing today and express my appreciation to our very distinguished witnesses. i have a feeling if we do the model of the commission that were looking at two people who could contribute enormously. so thank you very much and i thank our witnesses. >> i agree with you, senator collins. this membership on the commission would be an appropriate punishment for your good behavior. over the years. and for your excellent testimony today. i think we are really on the verge of beginning to try to do something about this. it's a long way from doing something.ñr but i think we have a reasonable opportunity here, reasonable chance to begin the process that we're talking about that both o

albert einstein once said, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again andxpecting different results." even though their stimulus bill hasn't created a single job and has resulted in 10% unemployment, house democrats have brought to the floor a stimulus 2 bill that continues to expand numerous provisions of their failed stimulus 1 bill. and here's a graphic depiction of this insanity. how does spending more on the bureau of reclamation create more jobs? how does transit capital assistance now create jobs now than it didn't before? and how did loan guarantees create jobs now when they didn't before? this is a son of stimulus bill. let's stop the insanity. vote no. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: who seeks recognition? the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. obey: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, the chairman of the banking committee, mr. frank. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts for three minutes. mr. frank: madam speaker, the assertion that the eco

now as we move towards einstein three, those same concerns are in place.we want you to work with us to make sure that we've institutionalized the protection of privacy for american citizens over personal information that's not needed for security. but then secondly we want to make sure that we have in place adequate structures so that we can counter double their ability that bad players are trying to perpetrate on the united states, particularly mindful that nsa located in maryland at the premiere collection agency in the world is actively working on this. and i just called to your attention to give this matter the highest attention. >> well senator, i couldn't agree with you more. indeed i believe that the cyber mission is one of the major missions of the whole homeland security environment. it's also a rapidly evolving one and changing one almost by the time you are talking about a particular intrusion, it is passed and you're onto the next one. so i just want to clarify if i might one thing. and that is i don't think there is any confusion at least amon

albert einstein once said, quote, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. the first stimulus didn't work. the new stimulus would only increase the already massive deficit and provide a temporary fix. higher taxes and higher spending is not the formula for economic growth. what america really needs is to encourage entrepreneurial activity, help small businesses, and get the government out of our pockets. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i have witnessed the horror of choice between back alley abortions and sometimes unforced marriage to try to avoid disgrace. those were the realities that women faced prior to 1973. my fear is that the harmful stupak-pitts language is signed into law we will revert back to those dark times. critical to this debate is a brea

einstein said if you keep doing the same thing and expect a different result, it's insanity. we're getting close. i yield. mr. thompson: and there's a two-part penalty to this, one is we are spending all this money, but this isn't even money that we have. this is deficit spending. this is spending that we have to reach out and to creditors and to take out loans. and who is our number one creditor? who is the number one entity that is lending us money? it's china. and so it's not just spending, it's deficit spending. the last time i remember a situation like this specifically was back at the tail end of the president carter years. and my wife and i were young. we had just married and looking to purchase that first home and we weren't making a whole lot of money, but as we looked around, real estate wasn't selling particularly very expensive and the reason for that is because of the inflation and stag flation. we applied for a first-time homeowners from the state. our interest rate was 14%. but that was a great interest rate because at that point, the banks commercially were le

albert einstein once said, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again andcting different results." even though their stimulus bill hasn't created a single job and has resulted in 10% unemployment, house democrats have brought to the floor a stimulus 2 bill that continues to expand numerous provisions of their failed stimulus 1 bill. and here's a graphic depiction of this insanity. how does spending more on the bureau of reclamation create more jobs? how does transit capital assistance now create jobs now than it didn't before? and how did loan guarantees create jobs now when they didn't before? this is a son of stimulus bill. let's stop the insanity. vote no. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: who seeks recognition? the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. obey: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, the chairman of the banking committee, mr. frank. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts for three minutes. mr. frank: madam speaker, the assertion that the econom

i think it was einstein who said if you repeat the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, you may be crazy. that's what we've done today. we came up with a junior stimulus bill and passed it on this floor and the people who voted for it were the democrats. they were a little reluctant in voting for it because it didn't work very well the first time when they did the stimulus and they're not so confident that it's going to work again. so what are we looking at in terms of obama-pelosi spending. well, you've got the second half of the wall street bailout here, $350 billion. then you've got this economic stimulus thing that has not worked, we said it wouldn't work, it doesn't work, it will never work, yet they spend $787 billion -- they haven't spent it all, they're swapping it into other government programs. then the schip and appropriations, another $400 billion over there, i.m.f. bailout that chart is wrong, it's probably about $110 billion. then the house got excited about doing some serious spending, they passed a c57 and -- cap and tax, that global warming bill,

as albert einstein said, the most powerful force on earth is not nuclear energy, it's the power of compounding against you. it also means when you act sooner rather than later the less draconian changes has to be made, the better ability to plan. so let's act sooner rather than later. taxes are going up on a lot more than those making $250,000 or more. why? mass. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i want to thank you for being at this hearing today and express my appreciation to our very distinguished witnesses. i have a feeling if we do the model of the commission that were looking at two people who could contribute enormously. so thank you very much and i thank our witnesses. >> i agree with you, senator collins. this membership on the commission would be an appropriate punishment for your good behavior. over the years. and for your excellent testimony today. i think we are really on the verge of beginning to try to do something about this. it's a long way from doing something.ñr but i think we have a reasonable opportunity here, reasonable chance to begin the process that we're talking about that

now as we move towards einstein three, those same concerns are in place.e want you to work with us to make sure that we've institutionalized the protection of privacy for american citizens over personal information that's not needed for security. but then secondly we want to make sure that we have in place adequate structures so that we can counter double their ability that bad players are trying to perpetrate on the united states, particularly mindful that nsa located in maryland at the premiere collection agency in the world is actively working on this. and i just called to your attention to give this matter the highest attention. >> well senator, i couldn't agree with you more. indeed i believe that the cyber mission is one of the major missions of the whole homeland security environment. it's also a rapidly evolving one and changing one almost by the time you are talking about a particular intrusion, it is passed and you're onto the next one. so i just want to clarify if i might one thing. and that is i don't think there is any confusion at least among

as albert einstein said, the most powerful force on earth is not nuclear energy, it's the power of compoundingu. it also means when you act sooner rather than later the less draconian changes has to be made, the better ability to plan. so let's act sooner rather than later. taxes are going up on a lot more than those making $250,000 or more. why? mass. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i want to thank you for being at this hearing today and express my appreciation to our very distinguished witnesses. i have a feeling if we do the model of the commission that were looking at two people who could contribute enormously. so thank you very much and i thank our witnesses. >> i agree with you, senator collins. this membership on the commission would be an appropriate punishment for your good behavior. over the years. and for your excellent testimony today. i think we are really on the verge of beginning to try to do something about this. it's a long way from doing something.ñr but i think we have a reasonable opportunity here, reasonable chance to begin the process that we're talking about that both of you

albert einstein is a poster of said that the greatest power on earth is not nuclear power.s compound interest. if you are a debtor nation, that works against every citizen of this country. the bulk of our budget problem lies in the health-care area, the area of health care entitlements. that is why the proposals make an effort to reduce the deficit now and in the future.

we're long past the point where we should heed einstein's timeless truism that one shouldn't keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a new result. and the fact is, we simply cannot assume that pledges of savings in the form of the industry's monetary concessions to health reform actually amount to real fundamental reforms or that drug assistance programs are a substitute for a market which brings consumers better value. they are not. it is clear that the time for enactment of this legislation is long overdue, and, frankly, more urgent than ever. as illustrated by this second chart of unfilled prescriptions. just looking at it, you can see how the unmet need for medications has actually increased since 2003, mr. president. among working-age adults, only those with medicare coverage experienced any improvement in their ability to fill their prescriptions. all others saw a rise in their inability to obtain the necessary medications. among the uninsured, more than one in three individuals went without a required prescription. and those with chronic diseases, that number dou