"The Eagle, he was lord above"

-- William Wordsworth

#Eagles Quotes #Lord Quotes

“War is capitalism with the gloves off.”
“It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.”
“Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.125, Macmillan
“No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.”
“There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard to watch. 45 minutes of just pain and suffering is not enjoyable. We're trying to entertain people.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.”
“There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.”
“If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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