Category: Quote

  • 05/06/2020
    Two quotes from an article on Max Weber caught my attention. They are both from his book The Protestant Ethic…
  • 04/06/2020
    The historian Michael Howard once rebuked some gratuitous flourish of this “we did it alone” hubris in the pages of…
  • 02/06/2020
      Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is — Franz…
  • 01/06/2020
    The famous nuclear physicist, Enrico Fermi, was said to be fond of coming up with surprisingly useful numerical answers on…
  • 29/05/2020
    Charlemagne reports on the spat between the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the German Constitutional Court. The latter had…
  • 26/05/2020
    We may be coming to realise that the people who complain about the nanny state are the people who had…
  • 20/05/2020
    I am very fond of the Alan Kay line that the best way to predict the future is to invent…
  • 19/05/2020
    Terrific post in the Monday Note from Jean-Louis Gassée. He writes: This week’s note was sparked by a conversation with…
  • 18/05/2020
    Education is intellectual infrastructure.  So is science.  They have very high yield, but delayed payback.  Hasty societies that can't span…
  • 15/05/2020
    No, not post-covid nor even post-final Heineken or six-nation rugby 2020 🙁, but rather the default drink of the networker.…