"G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric."

-- Erik Brynjolfsson

#Welfare Quotes #Values Quotes

“I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.”
“As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.”
“The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.”
“The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.”
“Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!”
“The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true gritâ€”sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.”
“Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?”
“Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.”

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