Dharma Kumar quotes

“Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.”
-- Dharma Kumar

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“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”

“When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.”

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

Source : Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.355

“Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.”

Source : Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations”, Xist Publishing

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”

Source : Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall (1888). “The Economics of Industry”

“Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.”

“Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).”

Source : "A Clinton Report Card, So Far" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.

“Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.”