Interesting quote from a great man. When Lincoln was Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, the penalty for desertion was death, sometimes amended to branding
President Abraham Lincoln
Smart People Say The Stupidest Things
Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, during the height of Hitler’s reign of terror at the Nazi Olympics in 1936. After being the first aviator to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, Lindbergh had been the most admired man in the United States and a national hero.
Decency and values? Holocaust and genocide. Lindbergh was the most idolized man of his time, but managed to throw it all away with his
Alexis Carrel, an inventor of arterial splicing and clot prevention, on promoting murder.
Yes, if only we could sacrifice the people like you, Mr. Carrel, after they make their contributions to society but before they say such
Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-Founder, on giving money to art museums
Quoting from an argument advanced by moral philosopher Peter Singer, Gates questions why anyone would donate money to build a new wing for a
Bill Carr, Amazon’s Vice President of Digital Video and Music
Let the people decide! Sounds very democratic and all, but for better or worse, what the people decide on seems to be massive amounts
Rafael Viñoly, Architect, on the toxicity of his design for the Vdara hotel in Las Vegas
From the review: Rafael Viñoly, has earned unhappy fame as the creator of a curving, 37-story building in London that turns out to focus
David Karp, CEO & Founder at Tumblr, on how Tumblr is run.
Okay, we’ll assume that if someone can create Tumblr, and sell it to Yahoo, they’ve got to be smart right? But to say the
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and risk analyst
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a very smart man, probably a brilliant man. He is the author of The Black Swan and Antifragile: Things that
Dana Thomas, Editor for New York Times’ “T Magazine”, on Antoine Arnault changing his playboy image.
From the article: Antoine Arnault spent his youth enjoying the spoils of being the LVMH titan’s eldest son. The 36-year-old is the son of Bernard
Paul Ehrlich, Environmentalist and MacArthur Foundation “genius”, on Julian Simon, a fellow academic to whom Ehrlich lost a famous bet.
AM: In a famous bet between Ehrlich and Simon, the former bet that commodity prices would rise as a result of increasing scarcity. He