Conrad Wolfram Quotes
Any tool can be used badly.
There are two general kinds of human action against their own interest. In the first find, citizens place the nation or the good of the community above their own personal advantage. Every soldier who voluntarily fights is engaging in this type of altruistic behavior. The other is where politicians, democratically elected or imposed offend people in some way. In a democracy people will vote against candidates whose policies are better for the individual, but he is offended by their corruption, immorality, racism, sexism or the like. Richard Nixon was turned on by the vast majority of Americans despite the fact that he presided over national affluence, and had by almost any standard made great breakthroughs in foreign policy. Another example is most of the Arab nations whose citizens support leaders who can and will not improve their standard of living but makes them feel good because they maintain Islamic dignity be opposing the West, even when the opposition itself makes development and growth much more difficult.
Commenting on the large number of lawyers going into lobbying:
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
In the 1824 presidential election Jackson won a plurality of popular and electoral votes but not a majority. The election was thrown into the House of Representatives where Speaker Henry Clay cut a deal with John Quincy Adams who had finished second. Adams became President and Clay, Secretary of State.
At the time, Root was a Senator from New York and was trying to eliminate the large number of patronage jobs, most of which were not even real jobs—just payment. These developed the name of “No Show Jobs.”
Conrad Wolfram is a British technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and mathematics education reform. In June 2020, Conrad released his first book, The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age.
