Patrik

“An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“Allan had always reasoned about religion that if you couldn't know for sure then there was no point in going around guessing.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community--the all-important web of meaning we spin around each other--the inescapable context within which anything truly human has taken place.”
― Cacilda Jethá, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality