“For the robust, an error is information; for the fragile, an error is an error.”
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Saturday Linkages
Saturday’s Quote: Spring
NOTHING is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
–Beginning of the poem, Spring, by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)
Saturday’s Quote: Goethe
This one strikes me as particularly pertinent after all the head-scratching about cleaning products and GMO’d cat litter this week:
Doubt grows with knowledge.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Proverbs in Prose, 1819
Saturday’s Quote: Farmers, the Sexiest Men and Women Alive
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“When the next batch of huricanes hits and the oil wells run dry, whom do you want to wake up next to? Someone who can program HTML or someone who can help a cow give birth? Do you want someone with Bluetooth or someone with a tractor? How can someone who makes food out of dirt not impress you?”
-Lou Bendrick
Saturday’s Quote: Charles Martin Simon
“There are no straight lines in Nature, folks. Nature abhors symmetry. Sure, things look symmetrical, but they never are, not when you look close enough. Symmetry is a human interpretation, a desire, an illusion if you will. Appearance leading to idealization leading to the setting of hard-line standards is indeed a problem.”
-Charles Martin Simon (aka Charlie Nothing), Principles of Beekeeping Backwards