Jaroslav Langer

“The largest and most famous such experiment was conducted in the Soviet Union, and it failed miserably. ‘Everyone would work according to their abilities, and receive according to their needs’ turned out in practice into ‘everyone would work as little as they can get away with, and receive as much as they could grab’.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
― Carveth Read, Logic, Deductive and Inductive

“Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, once declared, “I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.”
― Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

“A penny saved is two pence clear.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac