To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Hannah Fry was born
on this day in 1984
Hannah Fry — the British academic and television presenter — was born on this day — February 21, 1984 — in Harlow, England.
She is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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A statesman cannot create anything himself. He must wait and listen until he hears the steps of God sounding through events; then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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Designs fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative
objects nor works of art.
~ Dieter Rams
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Roundly insulting one’s superiors behind their backs was one of the perks of being inferior.
~ Iain Banks
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I don’t think we do a service to anyone to pretend that technology does not eliminate some jobs. Some jobs it just makes much better. But the arc of this has been that every technological revolution eliminates one class, one sets of jobs, and we find new ones on the other side that are hard to imagine from where we sit today.
~ Sam Altman
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Democracies owe their existence to national loyalties — the loyalties that are supposedly shared by government and opposition, by all political parties, and by the electorate as a whole. Wherever the experience of nationality is weak or non-existent, democracy has failed to take root. For without national loyalty, opposition is a threat to government, and political disagreements create no common ground.
~ Roger Scruton
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