"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills"

-- Benoit Mandelbrot

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“Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which there can be no political stability or social progress.”
“The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.”
“It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.”
“Ive always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.”
“For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.”
“The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.”
“I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world,”
“I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry. Whether I shall have the satisfaction of taking part in their exposition, or whether that will remain for some more profound expositor, will be seen in the future.”

Source : "Linear Associative Algebra" by Benjamin Peirce, (Preface), 1882.

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