The world became a better place to live in after 119 1989 - fall of Berlin wall because each outbreak of freedom stimulated another outbreak. (Thomas Friedman)
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life. (Thomas Friedman)
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research. (Thomas Friedman)
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming. (Thomas Friedman)
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. (Thomas Friedman)
Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia. (Thomas Friedman)
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. (Thomas Friedman)
Think about what they mean for the preservation of language, for preservation of text, for the ability of people to tell their stories. It's going to be phenomenal. (Thomas Friedman)
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. (Thomas Friedman)
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. (Thomas Friedman)
McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. (Thomas Friedman)
In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. ... The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. (Thomas Friedman)
Yes in the sense that if you see China and Taiwan going to war, I wouldn't try to buy a laptop computer from Dell, HP, or IBM that month. (Thomas Friedman)
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. (Thomas Friedman)