“Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.” WorldWayRealMatterWholeRealityEconomicModelsRelationEdgesCoreAbstractEnterpriseReal WorldRottenFootnotesEconomic Models Author:Noam Chomsky
“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.” TryingHas BeensSometimesWholeFallSidesWalksPathDangerWalkingStonesEdgesWhole LifeMainstreamAbyssJumpingChasmsNarrow Path Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist
“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.” TryingWellsLooksLongWholeFacesAsksSecretStepsDarknessCuttingSonTownsFolksEdgesWhole LifeEmsYour FaceDragEvery Step Author:Bruce Springsteen
“God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.” WholeShowsInterestEdgesVested Interests Author:John Polkinghorne
“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.” WayNeedsI CanBookIdeasWholeArtistStudyFiguresKeysIndustryFitOkayHollywoodEdgesI RealizedBunchSoftwarePublishingMusic IndustryDevelopersBook Publishing Author:Trip Hawkins