The Diamond Age

Ovvero, il sottoscala del portinaio dello Snow Crash
Mon Feb 6
Your kids look to you for guidance, while your congressman looks to you only for votes. So, quite sensibly, you think a lot harder and more clearly about what you’ll tolerate from your kids than what you’ll tolerate from your congressman. pages 191-192 of Steven Landsburg’s 2009 book The Big Questions: (via thx-1138)