Ulam Spiral Quotes & Sayings

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money. — Joseph E. Stiglitz

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be. — Julian Assange

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. — Stephen King

I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality. — Signe Baumane

I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced. — Phillip Lopate

70 percent of long-term gym memberships are mostly unused, but a dog needs walking every day. — Gretchen Rubin