"On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data."

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Julian Baggini

#Data Quotes #Giving Quotes #May Quotes

“In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.”
“Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.”

Source : Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins
“The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.”
“No matter how much I feel, Iâ€™m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, Iâ€™m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, Iâ€™ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, Iâ€™m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesnâ€™t help anything. It just makes everyoneâ€™s life worse.”
“It's easy to win. Anybody can win.”
“There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.”
“I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that would have been sick. But right now, China is way more adventurous for me.”
“We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.”

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