Tom Semple

“As one historian has neatly put it: The futures market is a place where “men who don’t own something are selling that something to men who don’t really want it.”
― Donald L. Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

“But so soon as I had achieved the entire course of study at the close of which one is usually received into the ranks of the learned, I entirely changed my opinion. For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance. —Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences, 1637”
― Stuart Firestein, Ignorance: How It Drives Science

“But this was how the mind worked. The mind couldn’t think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves