psychopaths distill into positions of power in bureaucracies
The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it
Plans Are Worthless, But Planning Is Everything
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Inspiration and growth only comes from adversity and from challenge, from stepping away from what is comfortable and familiar and stepping out in to the unknown. In life we all have tempests to ride and poles to walk to. And metaphorically speaking we could all benefit to getting outside the house a little more often if we could only sum up the courage.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
As the saying attributed to the former astronaut and airline boss Frank Borman goes, capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. Put another way, if financial stability is destabilizing (as Hyman Minsky maintained), too much economic stability induces sclerosis.
(The Price of Time)
The surprising events that sometimes lead from natural history to medical breakthrough would make excellent science fiction—if only they were untrue.
The surprising events that sometimes lead from natural history to medical breakthrough would make excellent science fiction—if only they were untrue.
The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.
Vox Clamantis in Deserto.
a voice crying in the wilderness.
The secret of success is Vitamin N. Three main priorities:
1. Say No.
2. Get the priorities right
3. No Complaining
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Receive submissively what is sent you; wrestling to win the world invites an overthrow. Here there is no continuing home; here is but wilderness. Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beast, out of your stall! Know your true native land, look up, thank God for all things; hold the highway, let your spirit lead you; and truth shall make you free, doubt it not.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Only the educated are free.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
Long hours don’t make anybody more productive or creative; they make people stressed, tired and bitter. But the overwork myths survive “because they justify the extreme wealth created for a small group of elite techies,”
Children and fools always speak the truth
A doctor can bury his mistakes, an architect can only advise his client to plant vines....
What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough.If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, andif we command complete knowledge of available means, the problem which remains is purely one of logic. That is, the answer to the question of what is the best use of the available means is implicit in our assumptions. The conditions which the solution of this optimum problem must satisfy have been fully worked out and can be stated best in mathematical form: put at their briefest, they are that the marginal rates of substitution between any two commodities or factors must be the same in all their different uses. [From “The Use of Knowledge in Society”]
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
The state is the great fiction through which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
Those Who Remain
Change is not painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
