“For our improvement we need a mirror.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Zu unserer Besserung bedürfen wir eines Spiegels.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Faults, Scaling and Erlang concurrency
“For our improvement we need a mirror.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Zu unserer Besserung bedürfen wir eines Spiegels.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)
“Do we really need to hijack our attention systems every 10 seconds with a banner?”
Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist
The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science
“The price system transmits only the important information and only to the people who need to know.”
Milton Friedman book Free to Choose
Source: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", 15
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Quoted in We Desperately Need Marianne Williamson’s Message, https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/marianne-williamson-2020-presidential-campaign/ The Intercept, Jon Schwarz (5 August 2019)
J. Doyne Farmer (1952) American physicist and entrepreneur (b.1952)
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)
“We need systems that reward the best ideas, not the best presenters.”
Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer
Guerrero, Aaron (interviewer), "Introvert Susan Cain Explains Why Shy People Thrive at Work," U.S. News and World Report, October 3, 2013
Alan MacEachren (1952) American geographer
Source: How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design (1995), p. 5