Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.
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'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. S... 
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Who can forget the lessons, trouble teaches? 
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than p... 
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. 
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches. 
That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the ce... 
You can design a conversation intentionally, although most people dont. Most conversations have a ... 
A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back. 
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog compu... 
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers a... 
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. 
The only thing experience teaches you is what you can 
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to d... 
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. 
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. 
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other... 
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. 
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. 
It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look... 
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against mar... 
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all 
Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more... 
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do... 
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