«Your goal should be to make your average Tuesday as enjoyable as possible»
Tim Ferriss, amerikansk podcaster
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair, forfatter, gravejournalist og politisk aktivist, 1878-1968
«There’s a lot of aversion to risk. When you get people involved whose job it is to mitigate risk, they’re just going to say no to most things.«
Kate Darling, robot expert and teacher at Harvard Law School, 1982
«Without achieving what they wanted, they pretended to want what they achieved.«
Michael de Montaigne, adelsmann, borgermester, dommer og forfatter, 1533-1592
«When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.«
Frédéric Bastiat, økonom, essayist og politiker, 1801-1850
«For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.«
H L Mencken, journalist og redaktør, 1880-1956
«Socialism never took root in America because the poor there see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embassassed millionaires.«
John Steinbeck, amerikansk forfatter og Nobelpris-vinner, 1902-1968
«One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.«
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.