Money and Finance
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
From Meditations: Given the material we’re made of, what’s the sanest thing that we can do or say? Whatever it may be, you can do or say it. Don’t pretend that anything’s stopping you. You’ll never stop complaining until you feel the same...
- Bill Gates Reviews Jared Diamond's Book "the World Until Yesterday"
Diamond starts with the premise that human beings were hunter-gatherers for millions of years, and only settled down when we began farming about 10,000 years ago. So most of our genetic selection has been done in a hunter-gatherer environment. He argues...
- Factory Of Life
Synthetic biology was born a little more than a decade ago, an offshoot of traditional genetic engineering but distinct in its ambitions, precision and mind-set. Instead of randomly tweaking the genetic blueprints of living organisms and then working...
- Can A Biologist Fix A Radio? Or, What I Learned While Studying Apoptosis – By Y. Lazebnik
A quote from this article that I think relates to investing: “It becomes slowly apparent that even if the anticipated gold deposits exist, finding them is not guaranteed. At this stage, the Chinese saying that it is difficult to find a black cat in...
- Garrett Hardin And Michael Lewitt Quotes (human Fallibility, Technology)
“You don’t have to be an expert to have a healthy respect for human nature. In fact, laymen often are better at evaluating reliability than are the experts. The expert who looks for “the light at the end of the tunnel” can all too easily end up...
Money and Finance
"We are all atomic beings..."
From the book Cracking the Code:
“We are all atomic beings, made up of molecules and cells. The processes by which our cells operate and interact make us who we are. Once we understand that we are biochemical beings, albeit incredibly complex ones, it becomes easier to see how the fusion of computing power and chemistry will take humankind way beyond the somewhat crude medical practices that have been in operation to date.”
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
From Meditations: Given the material we’re made of, what’s the sanest thing that we can do or say? Whatever it may be, you can do or say it. Don’t pretend that anything’s stopping you. You’ll never stop complaining until you feel the same...
- Bill Gates Reviews Jared Diamond's Book "the World Until Yesterday"
Diamond starts with the premise that human beings were hunter-gatherers for millions of years, and only settled down when we began farming about 10,000 years ago. So most of our genetic selection has been done in a hunter-gatherer environment. He argues...
- Factory Of Life
Synthetic biology was born a little more than a decade ago, an offshoot of traditional genetic engineering but distinct in its ambitions, precision and mind-set. Instead of randomly tweaking the genetic blueprints of living organisms and then working...
- Can A Biologist Fix A Radio? Or, What I Learned While Studying Apoptosis – By Y. Lazebnik
A quote from this article that I think relates to investing: “It becomes slowly apparent that even if the anticipated gold deposits exist, finding them is not guaranteed. At this stage, the Chinese saying that it is difficult to find a black cat in...
- Garrett Hardin And Michael Lewitt Quotes (human Fallibility, Technology)
“You don’t have to be an expert to have a healthy respect for human nature. In fact, laymen often are better at evaluating reliability than are the experts. The expert who looks for “the light at the end of the tunnel” can all too easily end up...