#api

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#economic-stimulus-act-of- #nature

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#any #capital #company #early #i

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Athanasius

#escaping #fellowship #god #heaven #judgment

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#alternative #appetite #big #carbohydrates #consider

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#extensive #great #information #lines #machines

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#because #caused #early #federal #get

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#moment #next #now #practice #shapes

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy. ↗

— John Barrow

#assume #because #complete #fallacy #financial

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. ↗

— Dave Barry

#chat #future #internet #shaping #society