Success in business, as in most areas of life, depends upon being able to solve problems. If you can teach yourself how to solve problems, you have a bright career ahead of yourself. No matter where you live, you will find problems galore in need of solving. In most cases, those who would benefit from solutions of their problems will pay you handsomely to effect them.
– from The Sovereign Individual book by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
The capitalist world is a Boston …
The capitalist world is a Boston Marathon that never ends – there is no respite at the end of a punishing two-hour race. The race goes on and on and on and on and on: 24 hours × 7 days a week × 365 days a year. It’s unending, unrelenting, unforgiving.
– from What I Learned About Investing from Darwin book by Pulak Prasad
If the humans who manage the …
If the humans who manage the AI want to deploy an AI that discriminates, they will have little difficulty doing so. And because the AI is software, its discrimination can happen at scale. However, it is easier to catch a deliberately discriminatory AI than a deliberately discriminatory human. The AI leaves an audit trail.
– from Power and Prediction book by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb
This is the nature of sorrow: …
This is the nature of sorrow: often it fades with time, but once in a while it remains lodged below the surface of things, a stubborn thorn beneath a fingernail, making itself felt every time you brush against it.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Death, it seems, does not like …
Death, it seems, does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
– from The World According to Garp book by John Irving
Patriotism is just an idea, so …
Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism. But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.
– from Pachinko book by Min Jin Lee
Life on a work farm is …
Life on a work farm is designed to dull your wits. They wake you at dawn, work you till dusk, give you half an hour to eat, half an hour to settle down, and then it’s out with the lights. Like one of those blindered horses in Central Park, you’re not supposed to see anything other than the next two steps in front of you.
– from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
The Russians were masters of double …
The Russians were masters of double dealing. They might vote for sanctions against North Korea on Monday, half promise a centrifuge on Tuesday – and offer up valuable uranium contacts before the week was out.
– from The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man book by Jonas Jonasson
There had been a time when …
There had been a time when Pakistanis could afford to sneer at India, with its heavily centralised economy and suffocating bureaucracy, a land of cheap polyester kurtas and wheezing old rattletraps. Pakistan had smoother roads, smarter airlines and flashier hotels. But their fortunes starkly diverged after 2001, when Pakistan plunged into conflict and India’s economy soared. Now, Indians were sending satellites into space and snapping up British luxury carmakers, and it was the Pakistanis who looked sclerotic.
– from The Nine Lives of Pakistan book by Declan Walsh
A clean home, a clean body …
A clean home, a clean body, and clean company. Do you know where that leads? To a clean conscience. To a good, clean life.
– from The Maid book by Nita Prose