Category: Quote

  • 27/07/2020
    Not Waiting to be an Actor At the beginning of his career, an actor is a waiter who goes to…
  • 22/07/2020
    Higher education: things have, and will get worse The next five years will be worse for English universities than the…
  • 16/07/2020
    “I hope the lesson will really be that we can’t afford as a society to create the fire brigade once…
  • 08/07/2020
    He needed glory and he needed cash. The quickest route to glory was beating up barbarians; stealing their wealth and…
  • 06/07/2020
    Meliorism certified In 1947, Hobsbawm had excused his acceptance of the Birkbeck post by explaining that teaching preparations never took…
  • 02/07/2020
    Defining the appropriate probability space is often a non-trivial bit of statistics. It is often where you have to end…
  • 01/07/2020
    Some quotes from William Gibson in an interview with the FT “we’re looking at the collapse of the only liveable…
  • 30/06/2020
    Read that again Zuckerberg also said the company will not be changing its policies that allow lying in paid political…
  • 27/06/2020
    ‘Today’s meritocratic ideology glorifies entrepreneurs and billionaires. At times this glorification seems to know no bounds. Some people seem to…
  • 12/06/2020
    The best way to foster mediocrity is to found a Center for Excellence. This is a quote from a comment…