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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
― John Rogers

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don't know we don't know.”
― Donald Rumsfeld

“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
― John Maynard Keynes, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
― Donald Rumsfeld

“One winter night during one of the many German air raids on Moscow in World War II, a distinguished Soviet professor of statistics showed up in his local air-raid shelter. He had never appeared there before. “There are seven million people in Moscow,” he used to say. “Why should I expect them to hit me?” His friends were astonished to see him and asked what had happened to change his mind. “Look,” he explained, “there are seven million people in Moscow and one elephant. Last night they got the elephant.”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.”
― Jean-Paul Kauffmann

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”
― Bob Carter

“You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.”
― Warren Buffett

“Necromancers, known for their social inadequacy, often find themselves having to make friends.”
― Daniel Sell, Troika! Numinous Edition

“The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”
― John Scalzi

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time