Whenever you invest based on an ideology, you are going to make some decisions that are a little divorced from math.
-Peter Zeihan
The truth is like poetry. And everyone fucking hates your poetry
-Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar
Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality but madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
-Stephen Fry
Truth stares every person in the face, if you have the mettle to match its gaze, not be filled with dread and speak its existence devoid of hubris life changes for the better every time.
-Christopher Hudgens
Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance
-Albert Maysles
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing
-Elbert Hubbard not Aristotle
or Mark Staff Brandl
That’s one of the greatest powers I have, that I have 52 people who I hire and nobody knows where they’re coming from. For instance, there are two slots over at the jail. Nobody knows if Julia Childrey [Director of Department of Justice Services] put those people there or I did. It’s good fucked up. We like it fucked up. I care about my politics.
-Steve Stenger