The Y-Axis Blog

Many are what I’d call “Warren Buffett centrists.” They are not billionaires, but they are people who believe in Mr. Buffett’s saying that whatever he achieved in life was due primarily to the fact that he was born in this country — America — at this time, with all of its advantages and opportunities. 

Thomas Friedman in “More Poetry,please” in the New York Times on Nov 2, 2009

Immigrants are inherently dreamers and fighters .

- Omid Kordestani (Senior Advisor in the Office of the CEO- Google)

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

- Senec

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

- Saint Augustine

“The people whom you’re hiring from India and from, you know, China and from — the top universities, they’re the smart lot, they’re not really substitutes for guys who can’t get jobs,” - Economist Jagdish Bhagwati