Milton Friedman
- When everybody owns something
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - looks decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
W. E. H. Lecky
- Faraday on electricity
An intimate friend of Faraday once described to me how, when Faraday was endeavouring to explain to Gladstone and several others an important new discovery in science Gladstone's only commentary was "but, after all, what use is it?" "Why, sir," replied Faraday, "there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!"
Shakespear
- Macbeth does murder sleep
Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" - the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of car, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Nick Sacco
- Bad Historical Thinking: "History is Written By the Victors"
One of the most unfortunate and widely-accepted ideas about historical thinking is that "history is written by the victors." This talking point asserts that the truth of the past is not shaped by reasoned interpretive historical scholarship or a factual understanding of the past, but by the might of the political and cultural leaders on the "winning" side of history.
Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber
- Definition of Scrum
Scrum is a process framework that has been used to manage work on complex products since the early 1990s. Scrum is not a process, technique, or definitive method. Rather, it is a framework within which you can employ various processes and techniques. Scrum makes clear the relative efficacy of your product management and work techniques so that you can continuously improve the product, the team, and the working environment.
Friedrich A. Hayek
- Decentralization of Authority
To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account.
Bruce Lee
- Breathe
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
Adrienne LaFrance
- Millennials Are Out-Reading Older Generations
Millennials, like each generation that was young before them, tend to attract all kinds of ire from their elders for being superficial, self-obsessed, anti-intellectuals. But a study out today from the Pew Research Center offers some vindication for the younger set. Millennials are reading more books than the over-30 crowd, Pew found in a survey of more than 6,000 Americans. Some 88% of Americans younger than 30 said they read a book in the past year, compared with 79% of those older than 30.
Wikipedia
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