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You can only fit so many words in a postcard. Only so many in a phone call. Only so many into space, before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.
“However, by the end of 1947, P.C. Joshi found his line challenged by the radical faction of the CPI. They claimed that the freedom that India had obtained was false—‘Ye Azaadi Jhooti Hai’, the slogan went—and asked that the party declare an all-out war against the Government of India.”
― The Past and Future of the Indian Left
― The Past and Future of the Indian Left
“Economists are more like plumbers; we solve problems with a combination of intuition grounded in science, some guesswork aided by experience, and a bunch of pure trial and error.”
― Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
― Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
“Computers run our world and algorithms run computers, which begs the question: Where do algorithms come from? Fear of poetry, that’s where. Fear of the maddening influence of poetry.”
― The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
― The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
“While Marx himself was a great champion of modern technology, Indian Marxists are technophobic.”
― The Past and Future of the Indian Left
― The Past and Future of the Indian Left
“In a modern democracy, he said, people are beset not by a lack of opportunity, but by a dizzying abundance of it. In our modern society this is emphatically so.”
― Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
― Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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