Signer Or Signor Quotes & Sayings

Some libertarians use the example of Drachten, a town in the Netherlands, in which a dream experiment was conducted. All street signs were removed. The deregulation led to an increase in safety, confirming the antifragility of attention at work, how it is whetted by a sense of danger and responsibility. As a result, many German and Dutch towns have reduced the number of street signs. We saw a version of the Drachten effect in Chapter 2 in the discussion of the automation of planes, which produces the exact opposite effect than what is intended by making pilots lose alertness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Chaos that closely resembled panic awaited.

Shuttles raced to the presumed safety of the planet below while fighters crisscrossed the perimeter of the station. Platoon-sized formations of frigates and several cruisers formed up and accelerated away. To where the approaching attackers were located?

She didn't give a damn what her mother said in public. This was a bona fide insurrection. — G.S. Jennsen

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top. — Douglas Coupland

Formal art is essentially rational. — Sol LeWitt

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself. — Ovid

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. — Gore Vidal

The moon was round and white, sitting small at the top of the sky. It seemed the right size to sit in the bowl on the bullet mold. That was what I wished. I wished for the moon instead of lead. — Sue Monk Kidd

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. — George Bernard Shaw

Parades ain't for the people on the floats, they're for the ones watching it go by. — Alex Bledsoe

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I know people have very little control on an airplane, and that exacerbates the fear of flying. As you probably know, flying is a lot safer than driving. If you think of the thousands of take-offs and landings every day--and the miniscule amount of crashes--that has to put your mind at ease. — Wendy Sue Knecht