#din

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#fragility #internet-addiction #modern-values #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#conversations #dinner #dinner table #economics #economists

I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again. ↗

— Andrew Gould

#clear #exactly #frame #going #i

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. ↗

— John Gould

#anything #copy #everything #eyesight #i

I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them. ↗

— Betty Grable

#got #i #reasons #standing #success

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#apartment #based #building #character #course

I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public. ↗

— Anne Grant

#act #closely #county #courteous #departments

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night. ↗

— Lee Grant

#begun #childhood #documentary #fearlessness #fight

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost. ↗

— Richard Grasso

#both #criminals #given #go #lost

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#standing #their