“The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit... People understandably feel more confident about their future than they've done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less... Coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it's all been just a bit too much of a good thing.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensDoneBitsBlackResultsEconomyToo MuchAccountsGood ThingsInvestmentCurrentsDecadesIncomeSavingMassiveRacingMondayInflationDeficitRecessionsBorrowingAftermathToo Much Of A Good Thing Author:Nigel Lawson
“It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?” DoeSeemsOrderOpportunityBitsAtheismAccountsCancerFree WillUnfairTumors Book:Facing Up Source: Facing Up
“Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.” PeopleTryingBitsWaterAcceptingModelsAccountsMaking MoneyWetBusiness Models Author:Bruce Schneier
“This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.” PeopleWorldMayLittlesDifferentEasyBitsSoundLittle BitPagesAccountsDialogueDifferent PeoplesBlogsIdealisticFacebook Page Author:Paulo Coelho
“If you want to spend more money in restaurants, use credit cards more than cash. If you want to spend less, use cash more than credit cards. But in general, we can think about how to use the pain of paying and how much of it do we want. And I think we have like a range. Credit cards have very little pain of paying, debit cards have a little bit more because you feel like today, at least it is coming out of your checking account, and cash has much more.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsLittlesUseTodayPainBitsLittle BitAccountsCreditCardsRangeRestaurantsComing OutCashMore MoneyCredit CardDebitDebit CardsChecking Accounts Author:Dan Ariely
“He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.” PeopleMadeI CanTogetherLyingBitsCan DoRealizingWonderHappenedAccountsWake UpHorribleDestroyedAwakeSatShockWakingMixturesWoven Author:Philip K. Dick
“Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.” WorldTimeBitsExistenceInformationConceptsIdealsTasksConnectionsAccountsObstaclesPhysicsResistanceExplainingContinuumDiscrete Author:John Archibald Wheeler
“Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic psychology?' Whereup on he, visible a bit surprised, answered evasively: 'At least psychology has a social purpose.'” PhilosophyFormSciencePurposeSocialBitsOpinionPsychologyAccountsResponseSexualityDecentVisibleEarnestRepressedPsychoanalytic Author:Ludwig Binswanger