An archive of quotes that have been featured in the sidebar:
- Lorenz thought that the world is knowable, but it is knowable through the categories of the knower, which were shaped by evolution. So evolutionary adaptation by natural selection results in a partial correspondence, a kind of isomorphism between the structure of the world and the organization of the knower. On that account, organisms do not make theories of the world, they are theories of the world.
- Sam Bowles paraphrasing Conrad Lorenz - …the freer you’d like to be, the more you need to be a gentleman.
-Julien Smith - We will not have to agree
we will not have to conspire
we will not even have to fully understand
because the revolution will not be centralized.
The revolution can not be built, designed, or engineered …
The revolution can only grow.
You are the seed, you are the soil, and you are the buzzing of the bee.
- @shiftctrlesc - In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, ”Something must be done!” and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it.
- (fictional) from Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert (pg 90)
- If you want to create wealth, it will help to understand what it is. Wealth is not the same thing as money. Wealth is as old as human history. Far older, in fact; ants have wealth. Money is a comparatively recent invention.
- Paul Graham - …the core is never safe as revolutions gather force. If the revolution is shaped by fundamental forces, it will ultimately prevail, even in the core.
- John Hagel - Every step that a true Golden Boy careerist takes, is marred by deep philosophical compromises. You sell your soul one career move at a time.
-Venkat Rao - The worst career faux pas you can make as a mainstreamer is to tell the truth.
- Seb Paquet
