1.Everything is the way it is because it got that way. - Leslie Orgel or D'Arcy Thompson (unclear)
2.To live effectively is to live with adequate information. - Norbert Wiener
3.There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. — Thomas Sowell
4.The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it
will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes
it is intended to monitor.
- Donald T. Campbell
6. Disparate outcomes do NOT necessarily imply disparate treatment.
7. Correlation does not necessarily imply causation.
8. A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Well, I tried to be fair but the bastards and PC fanatics drove me to intolerance. Now, I hang with freedom minded people and respect religious types a lot more than I used to.