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Glenn H. Tarbox, PhD
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats -- Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
The single greatest instance of intellectual foolishness today is the continuing pretense that politicians are serious people worthy of serious consideration -- Don Boudreaux
... All these assignments are carried out by the implantation of carefully selected ideas and concepts. These ideas and concepts are neither necessarily true nor necessarily false. In fact, whether they are true or false makes no difference whatsoever, so long as they successfully serve to create the desired state of mind. -- James P. Warburg, United States Office of War Information
...it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We'll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice or cosily comforting belief; we are blindest to precisely whatever might be most illuminating. -- Iain M. Banks
...the Keynesian model never worked; and never will work. It has been resuscitated by opportunistic economists, not because they believe in its merits as an agent of macroeconomic rehabilitation, but because they recognize its political value as a weapon for moving economies from laissez-faire to state capitalism, or (hopefully) beyond that to fully-fledged socialism. -- Charles Rowley
