“To know how to wait is the great secret of success.”
Joseph de Maistre, quoted (among others) by https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/974934-to-know-how-to-wait-is-the-great-secret-of
“A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a Temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness.”
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers (specifically re the offices of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court)
On June 16 I was on Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz to discuss various current public affairs follies.
“Strong reciprocators are not altruists.... They’re rejecting lowball offers because the offers violate their individual sense of what a just exchange would be. But the effect is the same as if they loved humanity… Individually irrational acts, in other words, can produce a collectively rational outcome.”
James Surowiecki The Wisdom of Crowds [regarding experiments involving the “ultimatum game”]
“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
Willie Nelson, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 4, 2008
On the Crown & Crozier podcast I discuss Magna Carta, church, state and you.
On Wednesday I was on Alex Pierson’s show on Global News Radio 640, along with John Mraz, to discuss relief payments and job markets, COVID quarantine hotels, the notwithstanding clause and campaign finance, and more. A lively debate and fun was had by all.
“an old family friend … a retired auto-shop teacher, the sort of guy who knows about wrenches, who even has views on wrenches.”
Kevin Bolger in Ottawa Citizen March 12, 1999