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QOTD: Barry Ritholz on Blog Comments
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create...
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QOTD: Warren G. Harding and Recession
[U.S. President Warren G.] Harding inherited an absentee presidency and one of the sharpest recessions in American history. By July 1921 it was all over and the economy was booming again. Harding had...
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QOTD: Rule of Lawyers
Americans could once boast proudly that their system set the benchmark for the world; the United States was the rule of law. But now what we see is the rule of lawyers, which is something different....
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QOTD: Joshua Brown On Email
Email is totally out of control and needs to be made illegal effective immediately. It is the worst thing that’s ever happened to humanity. Unless you consider the alternative – phone calls – which I...
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QOTD: Thomas Sowell on Healthcare Bureaucracy
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government...
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QOTD: Healthcare Insurance
Health care insurance doesn’t mean access to medical care any more than car insurance means you have access to a car. —WhiteCoat’s Call Room, October 6, 2010 Tagged: healthcare insurance, Whitecoat's...
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QOTD: Barry Ritholtz on Banks
The greatest triumph of the banking industry wasn’t ATMs or even depositing a check via the camera of your mobile phone. It was convincing Treasury and Justice Department officials that prosecuting...
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QOTD: Jerry Pournelle on Bunny Inspectors
“There’s talk of doom and gloom as the sequestration approaches, and the Administration is running in circles flapping their arms like a local school board telling the district that any cut in the...
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QOTD: The Jaminet’s on Industrial Food Flavors
“Flavorists at [the food company] Givaudan go into orchards and fields to find natural flavors that can be chemically isolated and introduced into food to make it more pleasing. Among the flavors...
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Quote of the Day: Jim Gaffigan on Contaminated Fish
Has anyone even bothered to ask why the tuna are eating mercury? —Jim Gaffigan Tagged: mercury, tuna
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QOTD: James Fisher On Optimal Resistance Training Technique
We recommend that appreciably the same muscular strength and endurance adaptations can be attained by performing a single set of ~8-12 repetitions to momentary muscular failure, at a repetition...
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QOTD: Parker on Homeopathy
I love it when ads for medical remedies claim to be “homeopathic.” That way I know straight away they’re no better than placebo. —Steve Parker, M.D. Tagged: homeopathy, placebo
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QOTD: Downtown Josh Brown on Twitter and the Evening News
The evening news has become men in suits and women in pearls reading Twitter to your grandparents. Twitter is faster than print media, more in depth than television, and compared to the traditional...
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Infamous QOTD: George W. Casey, Jr., on Diversity
In response to the workplace violence murders of soldiers at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Hasan: “As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.” —Army Chief of...
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QOTD: Adam Smith on Self-Interest
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” —Adam Smith Tagged: Adam Smith, benevolence, self-interest
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QOTD: Edward Snowden on Government Spying
I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, but I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are...
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QOTD: Edward Snowden on Government In the Shadows
The [U.S.] government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to. —Edward...
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QOTD: William Jacobson on Government’s Data Mining
Prosecutors have become kings, with the ability to find a crime committed by just about anyone. Data mining and access to internet activity can help find terrorists, but it also can be used to find...
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QOTD: Barack Obama on Tyranny
“Unfortunately you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all of our problems. Some of these same...
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QOTD: Robert Morris on Computer Security
“The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it.” —Robert Morris Sr., a computer security expert who worked at NSA for many years
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