Quote of the Day: 31 March 2017

"You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was 'but we've always done it this way.' A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they?" -Terry Pratchett

[Just a humorous take on the appeal to antiquity fallacy.]

Quote of the Day: 30 March 2017

"If the competence is there, trust that the confidence will come." -Rory Miller

Quote of the Day: 29 March 2017

"Whenever we hear someone lamenting inequality we should immediately say 'So what?' Some of the smartest (and even some of the richest) people in America confuse concerns about the poor with concerns about the assets the wealthy control. It's rooted in that old zero-sum thinking–the idea that if a poor guy doesn't have it, it's because the wealthy guy does. But one person is only better off at the expense of another under crapitalism, not under conditions of honest entrepreneurship and free exchange." -Max Borders

[I am amazed at people who continue to insist inequality of outcome is a problem with the world rather than a feature. Without this feature, what incentive do we have to strive to achieve? It is only the natural result of putting in differing amounts of effort into our concerns.]

Quote of the Day: 28 March 2017

"America is built on faith in the individual, faith in his will and power to do right of his own accord, but equally is the determination that the individual shall be protected against whatsoever force may be brought against him." -Calvin Coolidge

[As an individualist, I concur most heartily.]

Quote of the Day: 27 March 2017

"[T]hat is almost defining characteristic of ‘progress,’ [sic]. It’s not what you want, or expect, and the ramifications certainly aren’t either." -Dave Freer

[Who are we to decide how progress should go? Are we really so vain as to think we can decide the way things will or should develop?]

Quote of the Day: 26 March 2017

"In today’s world, no matter where we live and no matter what our circumstances are, it is essential that our preeminent identity is as a child of God." -Donald L. Hallstrom

Quote of the Day: 25 March 2017

"Few 'griddle breads' deliver the goods the way waffles can. Sure, pancakes are fine, crêpes...dandy, but for those of us who are golden-brown-and-delicious-obsessed, nothing touches the waffle. And yet, most of us either consume waffles at restaurants (down south we even have a house named after waffles) or turn to insipid factory-made specimens whose quality can merely hint at the promise of the real thing." -Alton Brown

[National Waffle Day. You're welcome for the reminder.]