December 2008
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WatchThe Making of an Origami Koi
There is the dangerous cliché in the financial world [that] everything depends on confidence. One could better argue the importance of unremitting suspicion.
Galbraith
¶ What is outrageous economically and is outrageous morally is that normally in times like this, people who are competent and who saw it coming and who kept their powder dry go and take over the assets from the incompetent. What’s happening this time is that the government is taking the assets from the competent people and giving them to the incompetent people and saying, now you can...
They didn’t care that they’d seen it work in practice, because they already knew it couldn’t work in theory.
Clay Shirky
I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a bleak capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
Einstein
I think you’d be happier if you stopped thinking of what the world had to offer you, and started thinking a bit more about what you had to offer the world.
Michael Lewis
The Airstream philosophy has always been and will always be, ” Let’s not make any changes — let’s make only improvements!” Every inch of an Airstream has a functional purpose. There is no planned obsolescence.
Airstream, Inc., courtesy Jason Fried
