"Cool" people stay around the edges and observe the mistakes and triumphs of uncool people (and then write about them).

Brian Eno

‘I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.’

 ‘I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.’

 Geronimo, who led natives in battles against colonial powers for 36 years, evading capture and escaping captivity several times. After being detained by General Nelson Miles as a prisoner of war, Geronimo eventually acquiesced to civilisation, allowing himself to be an exotic attraction at fairs. Yet on his deathbed he proclaimed to his nephew  ‘I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.’

The difference between a good business and a bad business.....

The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after another. The bad businesses throw up painful decisions time after time.

 - Charlie Munger

As I explained

"The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed."
- Terence McKenna

There are people in the world so hungry.....

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Gandhi

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" 

- George Box

Everyone has a plan for smaller government--until they get punched in the face

Mark Dow ‏@mark_dow

4 hours ago

Mark Dow Retweeted Margaret

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits".

- Einstein

"The electric car won't save the planet. It will just save the car". 

Ran Prieur

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

– Confucius

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell

Tourism is a sin

“Tourism is a sin. Traveling on foot is a virtue. The moment people understand that you have come on foot and are trying to engage and understand them, there is an immediate change in attitude. On foot, no one chases you away or does not allow you to use their resources. They tell you stories they have not told anyone else.”
— Werner Herzog

we are the sum of our experiences and ....

We are the sum of our experiences and the subtraction of our possessions. so value experiences, positive and negative.

  James Altucher

When you slow down, everything lasts longer.

  James Altucher

simple rules produce complex behavior, complex rules produce stupid behavior.

Obvious

"The modernists discarded millennia of slowly accumulating common sense for the sake of shallow prescriptions and totalitarian schemes"

Roger Scruton

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue

"Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification"

Roger Scruton

The further a society drifts from the truth....

The further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those that speak it
                                          George Orwell

life is what happens when you are making other plans

John Lennon