“If the computer had been a human, its eyebrows would have raised.”
Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 6, “Contact” Section 3 (p. 202)
“Had there been a computer in 1872… it would probably have predicted that there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles that it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.”
Quote about the computerized estimates of the end of the world. Cited in: Ian Murray (1972) " Workers told of peril of technology http://www.kwilliam-kapp.de/pdf/Kapp%20in%20NYT%2072.pdf". In: The Times, April 16, 1972
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" Is Macroeconomics Really Economics? http://blog.independent.org/2013/08/14/is-macroeconomics-really-economics/," The Beacon (Independent Institute, 14 August 2014).
Context: The world probably would have been much better off had macroeconomics never been devised. Although I have in mind Keynesian macroeconomics above all, I include other types of macro models as well. I even include, somewhat reluctantly, the whole quantity theory approach descended from David Hume to the Friedmanites, now known as monetarism. … In short, among its many other deficiencies, as spelled out by Mises and his followers, monetarism’s most fundamental flaw is identical to the most fundamental flaw of Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, New Classical, and other theories advanced by macroeconomists during the past seventy or eighty years: not only does the theory leave out critical variables, but it is too simple, being expressed in huge, all-encompassing aggregates that conceal the real economic action taking place within the economic order.
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Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Source: World Made By Hand (2008), Chapter 4, p. 24
Clarence Darrow
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Voltaire (1916)
“What’s the price of life?” Donald countered bitterly.
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Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
