“In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.” EasyResultsStyleConservativeAssociationDiplomacyBankingAffluentCentral Banking Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.” IfsThinkingBelieveHas BeensResultsFantasyExtraordinaryAshamedAssociationAccusedShortcuts Book:Foucault's Pendulum Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.” HumansAgeResultsOpinionParticularPrideFairsPrejudiceTrainTrackPhilosopherReasoningLive ByAssociationTemperamentHumiliatingSmall PartsTrain Of Thought Book:Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose
“The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.” PeoplePersonsIdeasFactsResultsExampleTaughtAmountMathematicsAssociationQuantityCountingPsychologistMemorization Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.” AgeOpportunityDarkResultsPracticeCrazyDiedBritishMedicalOperationsHospitalsAssociationDeniedDrsThreatenedScotlandLicenseAcidDark AgesPhiladelphiaPersecuted Author:Paul Douglas
“...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the 1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off.” MenAgeDarkResultsCryDiedMedicalAcceptedOld ManArticlesAssociationThreatenedDark AgesSurgeonsInfectionPennsylvaniaChroniclesExpulsion Author:Paul Douglas