Patri Friedman quotes
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“We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.”
-- Patri FriedmanSource : "Public Choice Ignorance Everywhere". athousandnations.com. November 9, 2010.
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“Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.”
-- Patri FriedmanSource : Twitter, March 2011.
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“We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold and empty beneath the covers.”
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“Big ideas start as weird ideas.”
-- Patri FriedmanSource : "Peter Thiel, PayPal Founder, Funds 'Seasteading,' Libertarian Sea Colony" by Cooper Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.
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“Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.”
-- Patri Friedman
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”
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“A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.”
Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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