Quotes July 17, 2023

“The Allen wrench is the egg to IKEA’s instant cake mix.”
Journalist Lauren Collins, in the New Yorker
 
 
 
 
“Call it socialism or whatever you like. It is the same to me.”
Former German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck while introducing social insurance legislation to the Reichstag in 1881
 
 
 
 
“The solution to everything is making the indoors more like the outdoors.”
Joey Fox, a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems (HVAC) engineer based in Canada, speaking to Quartz
 
 
 
 
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
Wendell Berry, America’s farmer poet, extolling the holistic importance of understanding what’s in our soil
 
 
 
 
“These findings cast doubt on the hope that self-regulation would suffice to undertake a green transition. Firms seem very responsive to the public mood in words and programs. Better outcomes? Not yet!”
Luigi Zingales, finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, writing in a shareholder value study
 
 
 
 
“Someone might write an entire university dissertation on a specific part of the worlds created by Tolkien. Zelda lore isn’t quite on that level yet, but it does have depth.”
Ed King, a YouTuber (“Zeltik”) with 750,000 subscribers, exploring the mythology behind the Zelda franchise, in an interview with The New York Times
 
 
 
 
“If we think of body movement as a language, we are capable of Shakespeare, but most of us are using language like Dr. Seuss.”
Kelly Starrett, DPT, mobility expert
 
 
 
 
“We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm. But how we think about consumption and willpower carry enormous implications for the environment and the culture of society as a whole.”
Jenna Wortham in her 2017 article, “How Alexa Fits Into Amazon’s Prime Directive”