“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.” ThinkingWayWritingStillsReadingBehindsKnownPrinciplesSupportMovementPositionJudgmentToughMethodDefinitionsAppearanceDiscussionAnalysisPenetrateObjectionsFacadeCovertThink For YourselfClose Reading Author:John Taylor Gatto
“But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsPersonsHas BeensStillsMightThreeNumbersMillionsSupportGreaterBenefitsArgumentMethodGood PeopleMurdererLingeringCannibalism Book:God of the Machine Source: God of the Machine
“Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.” WisdomPoliticsNationsLeaderOpinionSupportEconomyFailingTreeMethodPlanningSettingForestsObjectivesSettingsLiberalismDefinitePublic OpinionTrue LeaderTrue LeadershipRallying Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.” IfsWantGivenHalfSupportBuildingMaterialsProjectsEvidenceResourcesMethodAvailableMilesStatisticsDictatorshipScientific Evidence Author:Jacque Fresco
“Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.” PeopleIfsHumansMayLongMadeStatesPhilosophyPlayUsedUnitedEnemyUnited StatesSupportConceptsFairsStandingMethodCleverAcceptableSophisticatedNormEspionageSabotageFair Play Author:Jimmy Doolittle
“New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.” LooksSupportMachinesMethodEtcRegressionVectors Author:Bradley Efron
“The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.” WayNeedsMindPersonsSupportWiseDependsFunctionIntelligentMethodIntelligenceAriseIdiotEccentricPropsIdioticIdiocyIntelligent Person Author:Rajneesh
“In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.” ThinkingGivingBelieveStillsPoliticalMoralSupportEconomicMovementEncouragementMethodPartisansSupport And Encouragement Author:Ray Stannard Baker
“Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.” MenDoeLyingNaturalForgetPrinciplesSupportViolenceCapableEthicsMethodIntimateFalsehoodRefugeLiving Alone Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation