The nineteenth century gave birth to two sets of events of a very different order of magnitude: the machine age, a development of millennial range; and the market system, an initial adjustment to that development.
― Karl Polanyi
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real struggle is between order and anarchy.
~ Edmund Cooper
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We must meet violence with nonviolence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the ceremonies of the public execution, the main character was the people, whose real and immediate presence was required for the performance.
― Michel Foucault
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USB-C standard published
10 years ago today
The USB-C standard was published on this day – August 11 – in 2014.
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There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience.
~ Niels Bohr
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Either every imaginable institution is founded on a religious concept or it is only a passing phenomenon. Institutions are strong and durable to the degree that they are, so to speak, deified.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Every man is a new method.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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