I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
~ Ferris Bueller
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The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived.
~ Phillips Payson O’Brien via The Atlantic
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If you want to understand the deepest malfunctions of systems, pay attention to the rules and to who has power over them.
~ Donella Meadows
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Is your own existence so replete with equanimity you find no outlet for worry except on behalf of others?
~ Iain Banks
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What if an A.I.-controlled drone flying a future mission misidentifies a passenger jet as an enemy plane and targets it? Is the military responsible for that failure? Or the defense firm that coded the software?
~ W.J. Hennigan via The New York Times
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Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
~ Tyler Durden
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In some parts of the Himalayas, parents marry off their oldest son; then, when his younger brothers come of age, they join the marriage and share the wife. No one knows which brother is the biological father of any child that results from these unions, and, it seems, no one particularly cares.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert via The New Yorker
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The more democratic the world’s societies are, the more idiosyncratic they will be, and the more their economic rules will diverge. But that is exactly what businesses cannot tolerate — at least not under globalization. Money and goods must be able to move frictionlessly and efficiently across borders. This requires a uniform set of laws. Somehow, democracy is going to have to give way.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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America’s old republic was born of rebellion against Britain’s more ancient monarchy. Yet, by strange fate, the passage of time has only joined America and Britain more closely together in war and peace.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belongs to phones.
~ William Gibson
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