"There is a thin line between busyness and inefficiency "
"If facts don’t matter to the White House, especially when they’re inconvenient, what’s next? Laws? "
"We have reached a point at which the information technocrats obtain from people’s lives – such as GDP or unemployment data – bears only minimal resemblance to the way people experience their own lives."
David Nowell Smith (2019)
Truth be damned - New Humanist
"Ethics is the agriculture of the mind. To govern man is like breeding animals."
Helvetius
Systeme de la nature
"The philosophy of social science cannot breathe in a conceptual vacuum."
Martin Hollis (Professor of Philosophy)
The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction
"Sarcasm is losers trying to bring winners down to their level."
Greg Kinnear: Richard Hoover
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
"Mathematical truths have the interesting feature that they not only are true but could not possibly be false. "
Martin Hollis (Professor of Philosophy)
The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction
"Science is a search for causes whereas observation cannot get beyond mere correlations."
Martin Hollis (Professor of Philosophy)
The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction
"You can challenge interpretations of law in court but not the law itself."
Prof. Subodh Wagle (Professor, IIT Bombay)
"Nothing can be probable unless something is certain."
Martin Hollis (Professor of Philosophy)
The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction
"Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery."
Robert Zubrin
"Coercion cannot exist without sanction."
Prof. Subodh Wagle (Professor, IIT Bombay)
"Public policies are always going to be complex, irrational and internally inconsistent."
Prof. Subodh Wagle (Professor, IIT Bombay)
"If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."
Sir George Porter (Nobel Prize Winner)
The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani (Minister of Oil, Saudi Arabia)
"If technology cannot be implemented in practice, it remains knowledge."
~ Unknown
"You have to be odd to be no. 1."
Dr. Seuss
(American children's author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, screenwriter, and filmmaker)
"If You Steal From One Author, It’s Plagiarism; If You Steal From Many, It’s Research"
Wilson Mizner
(American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur)
"Power is a lot like real estate. It’s all about location, location, location. The closer you are to the source, the higher your property value."
"Politics is no longer theater, it’s show business. So let’s put on the best show in town."
"What constitutes a good book is probably not what constitutes a good dissertation, and vice versa."
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
"Huge change has no shortcuts. It requires honesty, agility, and courage."
