Paulo Jorge

“Economic institutions shape economic incentives: the incentives to become educated, to save and invest, to innovate and adopt new technologies, and so on. It is the political process that determines what economic institutions people live under, and it is the political institutions that determine how this process works.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

“You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see?”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars