Perhaps the most remarkable fact about modern finance is that it fails on its own terms. Mergers and acquisitions tend to destroy value even as they sate the appetites of empire-building chief executives.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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We live in a state of perpetual emergency being declared, and that has all sorts of corrosive effects.
~ Dean Ball via The Atlantic
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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
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A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes the system likely to oscillate.
~ Donella Meadows
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If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home.
~ David Foster Wallace
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We only become beasts — we become worse than beasts — when we torment others.
~ Iain Banks
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If conventional visions of success strike so many as bankrupt, how can writers earnestly reclaim—or even hold on to—ambition for art?
~ Lily Meyer via The Atlantic
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The problem with overstuffed to-do lists isn’t just the total time required to execute their contents, but the fact that each new commitment generates its own ongoing administrative demands—emails, chats, check-in calls, “quick” meetings. That’s the overhead tax. Before long, knowledge workers find themselves spending the bulk of their time talking about work instead of actually doing it.
~ Cal Newport via The Atlantic
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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In the past 20 years, the United States has gone from leading China in 60 of the 64 “frontier technologies” identified by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute to now trailing in all but seven.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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