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“A paradox is simply an error out of control; i.e. one that has trapped so many unwary minds that it has gone public, become institutionalized in our literature, and taught as truth.”
― E.T. Jaynes, quote from Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
“if fallacious reasoning always led to absurd conclusions, it would be found out at once and corrected. But once an easy, shortcut mode of reasoning has led to a few correct results, almost everybody accepts it; those who try to warn against it are not listened to.”
― E.T. Jaynes, quote from Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
“something which is absurd or logically contradictory, but which appears at first glance to be the result of sound reasoning.”
― E.T. Jaynes, quote from Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
“Not only in probability theory, but in all mathematics, it is the careless use of infinite sets, and of infinite and infinitesimal quantities, that generates most paradoxes.”
― E.T. Jaynes, quote from Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
“passage to a limit should always be the last operation, not the first.”
― E.T. Jaynes, quote from Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
E.T. Jaynes
Born place: in Waterloo Iowa, The United States
Born date July 5, 1922
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“المياة التي تظل راكدة زمنا طويلا لابد وأن تفسد، وكذلك الروح تفسد اذا عاشت في دعة وسكون زمنا طويلا، فيرسل الله الريح التي تثير العاصفة فتحرك صفحة الماء وتبعث فيها الحياة من جديد وتدب الحياة في النفوس الميتة من جديد.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, quote from Christ Recrucified
“I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing with you, pup.” King confessed. “You make me fucking crazy and I feel shit that I can’t--” He paused. “Prison fucked me up, made me rethink things, but you’re managed to fuck me up more than prison ever did. For some reason, I want you around.”
― T.M. Frazier, quote from King
“Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..."
He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow.
"You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich.
"You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?"
"Even now," the woman says firmly.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity
“إن الدهاء الذي تتسم به هذه الإمبراطورية الحديثة يتجاوز كل ما صنعه فرسان الرومان والغزاة الأسبان وقوى الإستعمار الأوروبي في القرنين الثامن عشر والتاسع عشر.
فنحن قراصنة الإقتصاد على درجة عالية من الإحتراف، إذ اننا وعينا دروس التاريخ. نحن اليوم لا نحمل سيوفا ولا نرتدي دروعا او ملابس تعزلنا عن غيرنا.
ففي بلاد مثل الإكوادور ونيجيريا وإندونسيا نرتدي ملابس كالتي يرتديها المدرسون المحليون وأصحاب المحال التجارية. وفي واشنطن وباريس نبدو كموظفي الحكومة والبنوك متواضعين وعاديين، نزور مواقع المشروعات ونتسكع داخل القرى الفقيرة، نتظاهر بإنكار الذات ونحدث الصحف المحلية عن الأعمال الإنسانية العظيمة التي نؤديها.
نغطي طاولات مؤتمرات اللجان الحكومية بأوراقنا ومشاريعنا المالية، ونحاضر في كلية إدارة الأعمال في هارفارد عن عجائب المشروعات الإقتصادية الكبرى.
حققنا مكانة مرموقة في الحياة العامة أو هكذا رسمنا صورة لأنفسنا وتقبلنا أنفسنا، بهذه الطريقة ينجح النظام. ونادرا ما نلجأ للخروج عن القانون. فالنظام نفسه مبني على خدعة والنظام بشكل محدد يوصف بأنه قانوني.”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.’ Tomas”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
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