"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds -- Chapter...
"I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internaland double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious, even to ourselves; and furthermore that what...
Holiday reading quote #3, from Ziauddin Sardar's Desperately Seeking Paradise. On the one hand, it's an autobiography detailing one moderate Muslim's struggles to find paradise; on the other, it's a fascinating view of the some of his struggles with fundamentalists,...
"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." - Einstein...
Holiday reading quote #1, from Carl Honore's brilliant In Praise of Slow:"The Slow movement is on the march. Instead of doing everything faster, many people are decelerating and finding that Slowness helps them to live, work, think and play better......
John Templeton in the New Scientist (it's a pay-for read)"Science creates vast power rapidly ... [but] to invest in advancing power without investing in stewardship is folly"...
I liked this from Sweet Hallucinations Of A Psycho. I had a dream... I always wanted to become a famous talented actor & take part in an important play as the main charecter... Decades have passed and my talent wasted....
Quote for the day:"A man who does not know what has been thought by those who have gone before him is sure to set an undue value upon his own ideas" - Source: Mark Pattison, MemoirsI don't really know how...
From John Seddon, a business psychologist with a knack of putting things succinctly:"People do what you count, not what counts. Targets always make things worse."...
Wall Street financier Sir John Templeton has some wise words:The four most dangerous words in investment are: "It's different this time"Wonder how much that applies to social software and organisational behaviours?...
On F.X.Enderby and being naked without mechanically mediated communication.
"It's like the weather. A commander does not need to know the barometric pressure or the winds or even the temperature. He needs to know the forecast. If you get too caught up in the production of information, you drown...
DL Sayers quotation on the benefits of quotations
On balancing efficiency and creativity, and how you can be a ballerina without wearing tights.
On writing and who you are
Just started reading a book all about classification and its embodiment, collecting - and this quote has me intrigued
Quote from Philip K. Dick.
On blind men, elephants and knowledge
On the information you have being better than the information you "need"
On Burke's "never-ending conversation" metaphor
On Darwin's tragic loss of taste in the arts
On research being about asking the right questions.
