Troncs Supra Quotes & Sayings

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world. — Kathleen Parker

boy. Clark Gable, maybe. — Kristin Hannah

Where, then, is any particular gene - say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E minor. Is it in the original handwritten score? The printed sheet music? Any one performance - or perhaps the sum of all performances, historical and potential, real and imagined? The quavers and crotchets inked on paper are not the music. Music is not a series of pressure waves sounding through the air; nor grooves etched in vinyl or pits burned in CDs; nor even the neuronal symphonies stirred up in the brain of the listener. The music is the information. Likewise, the base pairs of DNA are not genes. They encode genes. Genes themselves are made of bits. — James Gleick

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools. — Frederick Lenz

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters! — Charlie Munger

There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing. - Sophocles, Electra — Megan Abbott