Farid

“Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism. It can make the once scarce the now abundant.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“It’s incredible,” he says, “this moaning pessimism, this knee-jerk, things-are-going-downhill reaction from people living amid luxury and security that their ancestors would have died for. The tendency to see the emptiness of every glass is pervasive. It’s almost as if people cling to bad news like a comfort blanket.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“In trying to make sense of this pessimism, Ridley, like Kahneman, sees a combination of cognitive biases and evolutionary psychology as the core of the problem. He fingers loss aversion—a tendency for people to regret a loss more than a similar gain—as the bias with the most impact on abundance. Loss aversion is often what keeps people stuck in ruts.”
― Peter H. Diamandis