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Note: I do NOT agree with some of these!

Note: I didn't factcheck these, they may be misattributed

https://mobile.twitter.com/omarnajam/status/935626720408768512?lang=en

"like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children." -- Jacques Mallet du Pan

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." -- Thoreau

"the eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me" -- Blaise Pascal

"Suppose a small bank has only one teller. Customers take an average of 10 minutes to serve and they arrive at the rate of 5.8 per hour. What will the expected waiting time be? What happens if you add another teller? We assume customer arrivals and customer service times are random (details later). With only one teller, customers will have to wait nearly five hours on average before they are served. But if you add a second teller, the average waiting time is not just cut in half; it goes down to about 3 minutes. The waiting time is reduced by a factor of 93x" [1] via [2]

"Col. T. P. Dowly, a 49er, Pike s Peaker, of 56; a Black Hill s boomer, of 76, and a Leadville hustler, of 78, is among the guests of the Ebbitt. Colonel Dowly is a telegraph genius and labored upon the construction of the Union Pacific telegraph line west from Omaha in 69. The greatest difficulty we encountered, says the colonel, was from the buffalos. They used the poles for scratching posts, and rallied from all parts of the bare plain to these what they regarded Godsends of comfort. A young Yankee with us invented a sharp brad-awl about three inches long to run into the poles with the points outward. It was thought sure that these ugly spikes would fend off the uneasy buffalo. It proved that the sharp points only made the sensation more grateful to the lordly bison, and down went every pole for fifty miles out of Omaha that night. " -- [3]

"it is precisely communities with adjoining territories, and related to each other in other ways as well, who are engaged in constant feuds and ridiculing each other" -- Freud . See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences

"Virtually every commercial transaction has within itself an element of trust, certainly any transaction conducted over a period of time." - Kenneth Arrow

"There was an AI made of dust, whose poetry gained it man's trust..." -- http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html (Universal Paperclip game)

"In public relations, there is a special term for the dumbest thing you say in a press interview. They call it the headline ." -- Tim Sweeney [4]