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“At one point he turned to Christie and said, “Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“You do not get a job or funding in this system by producing important scholarship that is productive and useful to the real world, but by furthering the agenda of the funders.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

“The science writer Brian Christian had an answer: computers are able to imitate humans not because the computers are such accomplished conversationalists, but because we humans are so robotic.”
― Tim Harford, Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World

“Because torpedoes took some time to slice through the water to hit their target, the submarine’s periscope operator had swiftly to judge a ship’s speed and direction before firing the torpedo on an intercept course.”
― Tim Harford, How to Make the World Add Up : Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers