"Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers."

“I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies”

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”

“Memories of ice and Trent surfaced, and I wrapped my arms around my middle. I had saved him, and he had saved me. What was wrong with us?”

“If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.”

“This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.”

“The secret of happiness is renunciation.”

“There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.”

Source : "Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street". Book by William Poundstone, 2005.

“Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us”

Source : Anna Wickham (1921). “The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer”