Evolution vs Capitalism

Evolution is mindless, economics is mindful,

collectively and individually. 

Did you ever know a rich person that didn't want to be more rich?

Said to Angelina

The universe is a giant quantum-mechanical relativistic Rube-Goldberg patchwork construct, knit by interactions of its constituents, changed and ever changing through these interactions.

Vandana Singh, Ambiguity Machines and other stories

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

The better you know someone the less understandable they become. That's what intimacy is not a threshold of knowledge but a capitulation to ignorance, an acceptance that another person is made as bewildered and ungovernable by her life as you are by yours.

Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. The vigorous expression of our American community spirit is truly important. The ancient injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself is still the force that animates our  faith—a faith that we are determined shall live and conquer in a world poisoned by hatred and ravaged by war.”
 

Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 13, 1940

Don’t be afraid of life! How good life is when one does something good and just!

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov