
“I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.”
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
Podcast Series 2 Episode 4
On Nature
“I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.”
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
September 24, 2009 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34746_Glenn_Beck_Lies_About_LGF&only
John Perry Barlow 2.0 (2004)
Context: It’s a perfect set of circumstances to give us the time Yeats foretold, with the best having lost all conviction and the worst full of passionate intensity. I’m an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I’m not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
“It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.”
Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
Source: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 5, “Monster Becoming Mortal Again” (p. 50)
“How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?”
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 47