Category: QOTD

This is what one loves about the net the anonimity brings out the worst and the best from everyone!

John Maynard Keynes is my economic idol, which is why I jumped at the chance to write the intro to the new edition of The General Theory. But I’d never heard this quote, from today’s FT:
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
Presumably that was said in response to someone who called him shrill.
Great Keynes quote – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog.

I want us to talk because I love the sound of your voice.
–Danny Kincaid. –The West Wing while talking to CJ

I’d like to borrow his phrasing.  We exist doing everything, accumulating many things, experiencing the newest things, and the fanciest fads, everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

from youtube, thanks to mark thoma here:
more information:
Forty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy challenged the basic way we measure progress and well-being in America. Today, the Glaser Progress Foundation is raising the same questions through a new medium. The Seattle-based foundation released a new web video marking the anniversary of a famous speech in which Kennedy said the Gross Domestic Product counts “everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” (emphasis mine)

You Create Your Own Stage, The Audience is Waiting!
+written on a fortune cookie found by Stephen Eley

I wish people take this to heart,
Start your Blog,
Start your Band,
Start your Novel,
Start you Startup,
Start just Start,
Your Audience is Waiting!