Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.
- Marty Neumeier
Language is not transparent.
- Mel Bochner
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
Stories are equipment for living.
- Kenneth Burke
Many people, including a fair number of his peers, might not recognize [Steven] Levitt's work as economics at all. But he has merely distilled the so-called dismal science to its most primal aim: explaining how people get what they want. Unlike most academics, he is unafraid of using personal observations and and curiosities; he is also unafraid of anecdote and storytelling [but he is afraid of calculus]. He sifts through a pile of data to find a story that no one else has found. He figures a way to measure an effect that veteran economists had declared unmeasurable.
- Freakonomics, Stephen Dubner writing about Steven Levitt