Lubricity Reviews Quotes & Sayings

It is often possible to make a profit by being pretty good at prediction in fields where the competition succumbs to poor incentives, bad habits, or blind adherence to tradition - or because you have better data or technology than they do. It is much harder to be very good in fields where everyone else is getting the basics right - and you may be fooling yourself if you think you have much of an edge. — Anonymous

[T]he more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And this is it. He wasn't training us for a calm and orderly world where we could pick and choose when we need to be clever. He was training us for a situation that was fucked up on all sides. Well, we're in it, and I say we're equal to it. I don't need to be reminded that we're up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we're the gods-damned sharks."
"Right on," cried Bug. "I knew there was a reason I let you lead this gang! — Scott Lynch

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order — Victor Papanek

Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we're tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories have a way of helping us make sense of things. — Chuck Wendig

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. — Moby

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk. — Theodore Roosevelt

What I need is to believe in myself again - for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. — George Steiner

Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up. — Daniel Black

Yeah." I gulped, my eyes still trained on the gun. "Guns don't hurt people ... people do," Ax said softly. "Remember that." "I do." I met his gaze. "Because in the end, it wasn't the gun that broke my heart - it was you. — Rachel Van Dyken

As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you've just to articulate exactly the way that you're exiled, exactly the way that you don't belong, exactly the way that you can't love, exactly the way that you can't move ... and you're on your way again. You're on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that you're imprisoned - the door swings open. — David Whyte

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food. — Kanye West