During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”
September 09, 2016
“Gentlemen, we must leap over the high wall.” Hearing that, I thought to myself “Huh? What is he talking about?” I was too young (21) – and too poor-- to have an understanding of what this seeming allegory was about. The words were spoken with strong conviction in a heavy Boston Brahmin accent. To me, an Irish kid from...