The Watchmaker

by | Sep 15, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place…the inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an...

Outsourced Thinking

by | Sep 14, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“When we outsource thinking to machines, we are really outsourcing thinking to the organizations that run the machines.” – Franklin Foer

Sports Gambling

by | Sep 13, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“Between 2018 and mid-2023 Americans lost some $245 billion on sports betting. That money has to come from somewhere. The result, as Charles Fain Lehman pointed out in The Atlantic, is reduced household savings, increased maxing out of credit cards and bank...

Baby

by | Sep 12, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“Baby: A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” – Ronald Knox

Income–Bottom 60%

by | Sep 11, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“When you calculate per capita income, or you use the OECD or Census technique for adjusting for household size, the net result of taking account of the number of people living in the household is that individuals living in the bottom 60 percent of American households...