I Had Spent Years Thinking

I Had Spent Years Thinking About One Thing While I Was Doing Another. I Had, In Fact, Prided Myself On Being Able To Do Two Things At Once.

I Was Depressed, But That Was A Side Issue. This Was More Like Closing Up Shop, Or, Say, Having A Big Garage Sale, Where You Look At Everything You've Bought In Your Life, And You Remember How Much It Meant To You, And Now You Just Tag It For A Quarter And Watch 'em Carry It Off, And You Don't Care. That's More Like How It Was.

I Was Asked By An Editor To Consider Writing Something About An American Inventor. I Asked Him If He Knew Who Invented The Computer. He Said He Didn't. In That Case, I Told Him, I Should Write A Book About John Vincent Atanasoff.

Is Human Nature Basically Good Or Evil? No Economist Can Embark Upon His Profession Without Considering This Question, And Yet They All Seem To. And They All Seem To Think Human Nature Is Basically Good, Or They Wouldn't Be Surprised By The Effects Of Deregulation.

As Soon As You Bring Up Money, I Notice, Conversation Gets Sociological, Then Political, Then Moral.