No, you can't do that!

"You can't impose "order," it evolves. When you mess it up, it has to evolve all over again." --L. Reichard White, Thursday, May 01, 2014

BIG picture

Anything's possible, some things are probable, a few things happen - - - --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 7:19

Backwards and Upside-down

"Modern" man does things backwards and upside-down. Education for example. Rather than teaching someone when they're ready to learn, we insist they learn when we're ready to teach. --L. Reichard White, June 16, 2012, 11:36:36

Progress? Are you sure?

Change isn't necessarily progress. --L. Reichard, White, Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:55 PM

What's the difference?

"Difference" is just the evidence of a "change" we didn't notice while it was happening." --L. Reichard White,  "The HI-JACKING of Civilization," Chapter 19, Information, Knowledge and Prediction R Us

Alright, who REALLY peed in the pool?

It wasn't the democrats or republicans who screwed things up, it was the politicians. --L. Reichard White, Friday, September 17, 2010 8:23 AM

The most dangerous person on earth

The most dangerous person on earth is the arrogant intellectual who lacks the humility necessary to see that society needs no masters and cannot be planned from the top down. --Friedrich von Hayek

Afghanistan bottom-line

“The entire COIN strategy [the COunterINsurgency strategy engineered by Petraeus and McCrystal et.al.] is a fraud perpetuated on the American people,” says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with McChrystal. “The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense.” –-The Runaway General, Stanley McChrystal By Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, Jun 22, 2010 10:00 AM EDT

Don't just DO something - - -

Advice to POLITICIANS and BANKERS: Don't just DO something, SIT there! --L. Reichard White, Friday, May 21, 2010 5:13 AM

There's safety in chaos

"Order" is easy to attack.  Attacking "chaos" is much more difficult. --L. Reichard White, Friday, April 30, 2010 9:22 AM

The REAL drug problem?

We've got to get off federal largesse. It's been refered to here in Utah as Federal Crack: You get addicted to it and it's hard to get off. ...They [Washington D.C.] are clearly dysfunctional. We can't pass that dysfunction on to the states. --Utah Governor Gary Herbert, CNBC, March 19, 2010, 07:48:35

Where 911 came from?

1. It is impossible to kill enough people to end up with no enemies.

2. For every person your military kills, you create 100 more enemies from family, friends, countrymen, religion colleagues, etc.

3. Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate. --via Jomama and with apologies to Intech Concepts 34, DougBuchanan.com  </a>

The intelligence services call it "Blowback," of course.

Unless you believe 911 was an inside job.

OOPS!

The economics profession has neglected to take human psychology into consideration. I've written a book, "Animal Spirits," to try to remedy that situation. --Yale economist and co-inventor of the Case-Shiller housing index Robert Shiller, CNBC, January 12, 2010, 09:53:39

Standard deviation

MBAs were all doing the same thing, all evaluating these [financial market] vehicles the same way. Partly as a result, we have a 25 sigma event -- which should happen only once every 10,000 years -- and now they had one every day for three days in a row. --CNBC guest, 3:52 PM 10/23/2007