User:El komodos drago

Thing's I've said

 * "Of regulators that aren't more bark than bite, those that do bite are outnumbered by those that don't bark."
 * "The only people who haven't realised that advertising isn't about conveying information are economists."
 * "Art is where the message exceeds the information contained within the medium."
 * "Life is like jogging backwards - you never know what you will run into... but you do know it will hurt."
 * "When I started studying politics I didn't really know enough to make sense of it, it was like playing a game with an incomplete set of cards. I now have the full set, it's just such a shame that the game is chess."
 * "The difference between a nationalised system, an unregulated privatised system, and a regulated privatised system is that under a nationalised system you have to wait weeks for someone from the GPO to fix your problem; under an unregulated privatised system you have to wait weeks for someone from BT to fix your problem; and under a regulated privatised system you have to wait weeks for someone from openreach to fix your problem."
 * "A lot of people don't seem to care that they are in the bottom 25% provided there's a bottom 24% to look down on."
 * "Fake news is spread not just by the misinformed and the liar but by those who place the truth behind a paywall."

Things said to me

 * "Micheal Jackson was about as 80s as he was white - progressively less so as time went on."

Favourite Quotes

 * "We have a finite environment—the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."
 * David Attenborough
 * "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."
 * Max Weinreich
 * "If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire."
 * George Monbiot
 * "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."
 * Sayre's law
 * "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
 * Joan Robinson
 * "I just make the car. I don’t drive it down the wrong side of the road."
 * Andy Hildebrand, inventor of autotune
 * Q: I'll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pyjamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.
 * Bond: Oh, so why do you need me?
 * Q: Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled.
 * Bond: Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pyjamas.


 * "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."
 * Star Trek, season 2, episode 1 (“Amok Time,” 1968)
 * "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
 * Warren Buffett