"Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it."

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Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

Paul Ormerod

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“It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.”
“I see prenuptial agreements as a positive - not only from a professional standpoint, but from a personal one as well. I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.”

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“Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties”
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
“You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.”
“Let's set the record straight. Money is important! To say that it's not as important as any other things in life is ludicrous. What's more important, your arm or your leg? Could it be that both are important?”
“We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.”
“Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.”

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