“as any engineer or architect will confirm, there is no such thing as a perfect design. Every solution represents an unhappy compromise among conflicting objectives.”
Michael Rothschild, Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism
In BOE Report I talk about a website that makes it easy to check Canadian government data for an increase in heat waves in Canadian cities over time… and not find one. If it’s all about the evidence, surely the lack of support for this particular claim should lead people to stop making it.
“As they say on the street, there is smart smart and then there is dumb smart.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things October 2001
“Count that day lost, whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done."
"Charles Stanford (1823-86)", quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail Oct. 15, 1999
“’I should soon have given up a life of pleasure,’ they say, ‘if I had faith.’ But I tell you: ‘You would soon have faith if you gave up a life of pleasure….’”
Blaise Pascal Pensées
“The wheels have fallen apart with their momentum”
Announcer on a Minnesota North Stars game on TSN, March 3, 1992
“If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all.”
D.P. Diffiné, The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I urge Doug Ford to put aside populist bluster and take advice from the experts who’ve spoken at our Economic Education Association of Alberta conferences on fixing problems in government by relying on sound ideas.