In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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Category Archives: 0859 – Quote Unquote
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By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
~ John le Carré
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
~ Peter Drucker
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I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Why did the Reaganites do this? They were in thrall to the idea that the highest, in fact the only, valid goal of economic policy is efficiency—defined narrowly as the maximum output for the lowest prices. And they believed that Big Business was inherently efficient.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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It is often difficult for Trump critics to inhabit the mind of one of his supporters, to understand Trump’s appeal without immediately defaulting to simplifications like racism and misogyny, explanations that have become less of a skeleton key and more of a shibboleth, particularly as the former president continues to see his support among minorities swell.
~ Tyler Austin Harper via The Atlantic
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The first Luddites were artisans and cloth workers in England who, at the onset of the Industrial Revolution, protested the way factory owners used machinery to undercut their status and wages. Contrary to popular belief, they did not dislike technology; most were skilled technicians.
~ Brian Merchant via The Atlantic
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Whatever the social effects of talk radio or the partisan agendas of certain hosts, it is a fallacy that political talk radio is motivated by ideology. It is not. Political talk radio is a business, and it is motivated by revenue. The conservatism that dominates today’s AM airwaves does so because it generates high Arbitron ratings, high ad rates, and maximum profits.
~ David Foster Wallace
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