What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: dating internet men-and-women dating-advice modern-life modernity bragging
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: slavery modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness internet-addiction technology-addiction technology-enchantment
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: ethics law corruption government lawyers modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness governement courts ethical-behaviour law-and-order business-ethics court-system the-supreme-court
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: fear death religion values modern modern-life narcissism modernity evangelism modern-values modernity-is-sickness
...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: nerd nerds clarity-of-thought modernity modernity-is-a-sickness fragility nerdiness modern-values internet-addiction robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness
I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: academia nerd nerds modernity autism nerdiness
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.
Mark TwainTag: modernity cincinnati
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
G.K. ChestertonTag: morality ethics christianity modernity
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
Daniel LibeskindTag: architecture urban-planning modernity alexanderplatz methodology
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.
Anthony the GreatTag: christian catholic saint orthodox modernity coptic
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