“'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.” Quote by Paul Schrader
“We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.” BecomingIncludingIllnessMental IllnessSilver Author:Jacki Weaver
“Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.” PeopleThinkingWantMightTodaySpecialProgramAddSticksChecksFatsFeaturesEnhancement Author:Bill Gates
“Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.” MenDesireSeaMastersTerribleSandShamefulObedientDeep Desire Author:Nikolai Gogol
“Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.” WantAchieveContrary Author:Nikolai Gogol
“If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.” IfsWantLooksDoneEconomyReturnEconomicsCognitionDynamicsInstability Author:W. Brian Arthur
“We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.” WayDoeRealTroubleDangerEconomicsAssumptionDeductions Author:W. Brian Arthur
“Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.” WorldMaySeemsFormHumanityEconomyMaterialsCreatingFairsConnectionsRewardsCreatorGoodsBentUtilityPredictableEliminatingWorld Economy Author:John Perry Barlow
“There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.” SettingSettingsEmploymentCertaintyRisingMechanismInherentWagesViciousSpiralsBargainingRising Prices Author:William Beveridge
“Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.” PrinciplesPositionParticularJudgmentEconomicsIndependentObjectivesEthicalShort Positive Author:Milton Friedman