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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba7f65a | It's the worldview in which if people tip in a restaurant to which they will never return it counts as a puzzle. | Michael Lewis | ||
| ea14c2b | I'm doing something I always dreamed about doing, and it was about the most depressing moment I've ever had in my life, | Michael Lewis | ||
| e0246ef | For a technology company to succeed, he argued, it needed always to be looking to destroy itself. If it didn't, someone else would. | Michael Lewis | ||
| b39624d | He wondered, often, what it would look like if and when the shit in question hit the fan: The stock market at bottom was rigged. The icon of global capitalism was a fraud. How would enterprising politicians and plaintiffs' lawyers and state attorneys general respond to that news? | Michael Lewis | ||
| 3b23ae5 | It actually went pretty well, until they got onto the topic of marijuana. "So you got caught smoking weed your freshman and sophomore years," said the Rockets interviewer. "What happened your junior year?" Williams just shook his head and said, "They stopped testing me. And if you're not going to test me, I'm gonna smoke!" | Michael Lewis | ||
| 066f8b4 | The general idea was to sell their software first to rich technophiles and then, gradually, infiltrate the minds of the middle-class owners of suburban tract houses. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 47dedd6 | In context the computer programmers appeared idle. They sat quietly, stared into their screens and sipped cappuccinos. And yet they were by far the most important people on board Hyperion. | Michael Lewis | ||
| ecba89b | Los psicologos de finales de los anos cuarenta habian detectado, o afirmaban haber detectado, que la mente tenia la capacidad para defenderse de lo que en apariencia no queria percibir. | economía economy racionalidad-acotada | Michael Lewis | |
| 8713f3c | How many people can pick up a book and find an instruction manual for their life? | Michael Lewis | ||
| d442a30 | Moore's law came with a social corollary: high-tech could not remain high-tech for long. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 5c006a6 | Every day, the markets were driven less directly by human beings and more directly by machines. The machines were overseen by people, of course, but few of them knew how the machines worked. He knew that RBC's machines--not the computers themselves, but the instructions to run them--were third-rate, but he had assumed it was because the company's new electronic trading unit was bumbling and inept. As he interviewed people from the major ban.. | Michael Lewis | ||
| d3b220f | Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions, | Michael Lewis | ||
| 86b9c81 | In 1980 only 23 percent of state pension money had been invested in the stock market; by 2008 the number had risen to 60 percent. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 12c3184 | Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...[it is] quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders. | fallibility intuition tversky | Michael Lewis | |
| 18fd659 | The American Home of the Future, it went without saying, would be controlled and monitored by a computer. The computer would permit the owner to enter into a new, fantastic relationship with his dwelling. | Michael Lewis | ||
| c9ae8bb | the risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don't. Which brought us to the fifth risk. | Michael Lewis | ||
| c3809ad | The sense of identity as Citizen has been replaced by Consumer. The idea that government should serve the citizens like a waiter or concierge, rather than in a 'collective good' sense. | Michael Lewis | ||
| c25b382 | Los sujetos no elegian entre cosas. Elegian entre descripciones de cosas. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 974cb1f | I remember his words," recalled Amnon. "He said, 'There is nothing we can do in philosophy. Plato solved too many of the problems. We can't have any impact in this area. There are too many smart guys and too few problems left, and the problems have no solutions.'" The mind-body problem was a good example. How are our various mental events--what you believe, what you think--related to our physical states? What is the relationship between our.. | plato science | Michael Lewis | |
| 921a959 | Resistance to understanding a threat grows with proximity," writes Kate Brown.)" | Michael Lewis | ||
| 4bcc4c5 | I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver. | achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth | Chris Murray | |
| 5782e53 | There is another way to think of John MacWilliams's fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. "Program management" is not just program management. "Program management" is the existential threat that you never really even imagine as a risk." | Michael Lewis | ||
| f25d8c2 | Psychologists have long known that people see patterns where none exist. | Michael Lewis | ||
| cb5b14a | After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else? | Michael Lewis | ||
| da793e1 | It's what you fail to imagine that kills you. | Michael Lewis | ||
| b9c9138 | It's the places in our government where the cameras never roll that you have to worry about most. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 604b811 | This sometimes feels like an overlong grad student paper. Although the author is quite intelligent, I often felt like she was more in love with her own writing than anyone else could ever be. She can be quite clever and occasionally tickled me with assertions such as, "Knowing Michael had not one, but two sons named Prince Michael, Jermaine would trump him, upping the ante on black nomenclature, by christening his son Jermajesty." She is be.. | 대마초구입방법 대마초구입하는곳 대마초파는곳 떨-판매매 떨구입 떨구입방법 | ≮ 텔레그램:KushTop ≯This sometimes feels like an overlong grad student paper | |
| 6cd2f30 | Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck. | humor marriage relationships weddings | Laurie Notaro | |
| d9e5578 | If there was a National Tweaker Olympics, Oregon would bring home the gold in every category (Living in Squalor, Poisoning Your Neighbors, Developing Facial Scabs, Public Aggression, Theft of Useless Things, Taking Stuff Apart, and Crazy Talking). | Laurie Notaro | ||
| acc2b77 | If you really want to be afraid for mankind, you don't even need to know who Paul Ryan is. All you have to do is lurk for five minutes by the pharmacy. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| d31c320 | Poor Holly. There she was, completely unaware while millions of minute mucus particles, each carrying the flu virus, exploded into the air like rain. It was their germ mission to land on her and try to find their way into an opening of her body, much like a date I once had attempted with me. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 23b3ef9 | There were times when, in her fury, she was convinced that she needed to drive down to Phoenix and let him know just how much of a bastard she thought he was, that he needed to know just what he had done. But she eventually realized that with his resounding, silent indifference, nothing she could possibly say would matter to him, and by the same account, he didn't deserve to understand how angry he had made her. He wasn't good enough to kno.. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| b7c76b9 | Sure, I'd like to lose some weight, but a tapeworm is the last way I'd like to do it, except becoming a prisoner of war. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 2e7cdfa | How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going to pop a tumor out of your body the day after you eat it. | food humor snark | Laurie Notaro | |
| 91b9e4d | If you're hoping to harvest a life of great deeds, remember you first have to plant some great seeds." ~ Denis Waitley" -- | Kevin Horsley | ||
| 0a1ac82 | Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now." - Denis Waitley" | R.L. Adams | ||
| f6f561b | Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth. | Denis Waitley | ||
| 065b4e6 | Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives." ~ Denis Waitley" | Kevin Horsley | ||
| 26f9485 | Get out of that comfortable rut. | Denis Waitley | ||
| 716d27e | The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them." Denis Waitley" | Darrin Wiggins | ||
| 3491361 | Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life. | Denis Waitley | ||
| 477c874 | Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets. | Chris Ware | ||
| 8dff37e | the nest is agiggle with excitement. | Chris Ware | ||
| 75dc5c4 | Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning | comfort-zone positive-attitude positive-mindset positive-thinking positivity sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living time-management | Chris Murray |