"Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress."

-- Jamais Cascio

#Stress Quotes #Strategy Quotes #Turns Quotes

“In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!”

Source : "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.
“Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.”
“The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.”
“A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.”
“The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.”
“but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.”
“Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“We're more effective than birth control pills.”

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