Usarec Quotes

#1. On traditional economic theory:
We do not play chess as if we were a grandmaster, invest as if we were Warren Buffett, or cook like an Iron Chef. It is more likely we cook like Warren Buffett, who loves to eat at Dairy Queen.

Richard H. Thaler

#2. In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Martin Amis

#3. A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

#4. My aim was to build up more and more that strength, hard and joyless, which had come to me when I heard the god's sentence; by learning, fighting, and labouring, to drive all the woman out of me.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof

Pharrell Williams

#6. It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.

Sam Altman

#7. I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Alex Steffen