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The market can and will at times be completely deranged and irrational in the short term, but over the long term it will price securities in line with their underlying intrinsic values.
“Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“A good designer is not the one who best follows the prescriptive steps of a method or technique, or the one who knows "the solution" in advance. Rather, a good designer
can approach, appreciate, and assess a complex and unique design situation.”
― Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology
can approach, appreciate, and assess a complex and unique design situation.”
― Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology
“While people in today’s affluent societies work an average of forty to forty-five hours a week, and people in the developing world work sixty and even eighty hours a week, hunter-gatherers living today in the most inhospitable of habitats – such as the Kalahari Desert – work on average for just thirty-five to forty-five hours a week.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“If a forager band split once every forty years and its splinter group migrated to a new territory sixty miles to the east, the distance from East Africa to China would have been covered in about 10,000 years.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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