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“sempre preferi a diligência das formigas à displicência das cigarras.”
― Roberto Campos, LIBERALISMO: Roberto Campos em sua melhor forma (Coleção Economia Política)

“A fórmula do desenvolvimento é simples de enunciar e difícil de executar: governo pequeno (pois o motor do desenvolvimento é o setor privado); impostos baixos (pois o governo é mau alocador de recursos); respeito à propriedade física (para estimular a acumulação) e intelectual (para premiar a inventividade); e abertura internacional para o comércio, para investimentos e para a tecnologia. O resto é pirotecnia matemática (dos teóricos) e conversa fiada (dos práticos).”
― Roberto Campos, LIBERALISMO: Roberto Campos em sua melhor forma (Coleção Economia Política)

“Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“A ideia de "esquerda" e "direita" desgastou-se a tal ponto que hoje só serve para fins objurgatórios, isto é, para acusar de "politicamente incorretos", aqueles que, de algum modo, não são a favor da maneira de ver por nós tida como "correta".”
― Roberto Campos, LIBERALISMO: Roberto Campos em sua melhor forma (Coleção Economia Política)

“You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Why are experts inferior to algorithms? One reason, which Meehl suspected, is that experts try to be clever, think outside the box, and consider complex combinations of features in making their predictions. Complexity may work in the odd case, but more often than not it reduces validity. Simple combinations of features are better. Several studies have shown that human decision makers are inferior to a prediction formula even when they are given the score suggested by the formula! They feel that they can overrule the formula because they have additional information about the case, but they are wrong more often than not.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“tudo que é melhor do que eu, tudo que sou incapaz de fazer bem, é motivo do meu aplauso e reconhecimento; às vezes nos achamos “fodalhões” demais, mas, na verdade, somos só mais da mesma bosta social.”
― Marcos Delacumbre Holtz, Um drink numa bota suja de lama

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“what has been worked away at in recent years has been a project in which verifiable truth is cast out. In its place comes that great Oprah-ism: “my truth.” The idea that I have “my truth” and you have yours makes the very idea of objective truth redundant. It says that a thing becomes so because I feel it to be so or say that it is so. At its most extreme, it is a reversion to a form of magical thinking. Precisely the thinking that the Enlightenment thinkers chased out. And perhaps that is why the Enlightenment thinkers have become such a focus for assault. Because the system they set up is antithetical to the system that is being constructed today: a system entirely opposed to the idea of rationalism and objective truth; a system dedicated to sweeping away everyone from the past as well as the present who does not bow down to the great god of the present: “me.”
― Douglas Murray, The War on the West