Daniel

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

“One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Urbanization, the industrialization of food systems, and the building of highways may have contributed to GDP over the short term, but they have created societal vulnerability over the longer term. In a world of Peak Oil, scarce fresh water, unstable currencies, changing climate, and declining trade, true “development” may require implementation of policies at odds with — sometimes the very reverse of — those of recent decades.”
― Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

“the chance of an average developing-country person being an entrepreneur is more than twice that for a developed-country person (30 per cent vs. 12.8 per cent).”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism