In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
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The internet is a network of networks. Internet exchanges are the portals where lots of those networks are linked to each other; switches connect devices within these networks. As the internet has grown, exchanges and their switches have become more numerous and vastly more impressive, allowing levels of performance that would have been unthinkable using old technology.
~ Abby Bertics via The Economist
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Campus Life at the
University of Maine
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The truth of the matter is that no one can teach you how to think; but what they can do is teach you how to think for yourself.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Campus Life at
Cal State San Bernardino
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Although intergenerational population replacement involves long time lags, cultural change can reach a tipping point at which new norms become dominant. Conformism and social desirability effects then reverse polarity: instead of retarding the changes linked with intergenerational population replacement, they accelerate them, bringing unusually rapid cultural change.
~ Ronald Inglehart
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The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual’s identification with a group.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
~ Blaise Pascal
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