Trinosophia Quotes & Sayings

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards. — Gillian Jacobs

A confession has to be part of your new life. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

How defenseless we are in the face of flattery! — Milan Kundera

And it's often the one you trust the most who'll cut your throat for the right price. — John Grisham

You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes. — Stephen Spender

If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me:

You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of some people's means. This can be because food is short, objectively. This can be because the rich have bid the resources normally used to produce food away to other uses. You also get famine when the price of food is moderate if the incomes of large groups collapse.... In all of this, the lesson is that a properly functioning market does not seek to advance human happiness but rather to advance human wealth. What speaks in the market is money: purchasing power. If you have no money, you have no voice in the market. The market acts as if it does not know you exist and does not care whether you live or die.

DeLong describes a marketplace that leaves people to die - not out of malice , but out of indifference. — Annalee Newitz

These words are all I have so I write them- I need them just to get by. — Fall Out Boy

Physical beauty should have no importance in a lasting relationship. — Julie Garwood

O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life. — Kenneth Leighton

When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do. — Eric Clapton

I guess that means I won in the end, at least in a financial sense. But in my heart I stayed ashamed. I kept hearing Miss Hisler asking me why I wanted to waste my talent, why I wanted to waste my time, why I wanted to write junk. — Stephen King