Imagine a weary sailor coming home to port in the midst of a brutal storm. Along the horizon he sees the burning lights of dozens of lighthouses. And yet he knows from experience that some are so old they've receded miles inland as the shore has grown. Others are simply fakes, put out by sadists and rivals. To be a citizen in these strange times is to perpetually find oneself in that poor sailor's perilous state. We know that danger lurks in the darkness, but we don't know if we have the means to avoid it. Christopher L. Hayes
My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others...
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Hewitt E. Moore
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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Oscar Wilde
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
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T.S. Eliot
We rely on our education, on our judgment and our intuition to make decisions, but sometimes we find ourselves in the most dangerous scenario we can be in as individuals or as team, when we don’t know that we don’t know but we believe we...
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Dragos Bratasanu
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
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Antonya Nelson
More Quotes By Christopher L. Hayes
The first commendment of hte post 1970s meritocracy can be sumed up as follows: "Thou shall provide equality of opportunity to all, regardless of race, gender, or sexual oritentation, but worry not about equality of outcomes." But what we've seen time and time again is...
At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates responsibility and import.. But my central contention is that our near-religious fidelity to the meritocratic model comes with huge costs. We overestimate the...
What we actually know firsthand is minuscule: the feel of the spring air on our skin, our own private daydreams and phobias. Outside of these tiny warrens of private knowledge, we have to depend on what others say.
Imagine a weary sailor coming home to port in the midst of a brutal storm. Along the horizon he sees the burning lights of dozens of lighthouses. And yet he knows from experience that some are so old they've receded miles inland as the shore...
