diff --git a/assets/data/quotes.json b/assets/data/quotes.json index 17b3363..7e0a4b7 100644 --- a/assets/data/quotes.json +++ b/assets/data/quotes.json @@ -1,42 +1,54 @@ [ { - "quote": "Firms and other organizations [are] permanently and randomly subject to decline and decay —that is, to a gradual loss of rationality, efficiency, and surplus-producing energy— no matter how well the institutional framework within which they function is designed.", - "author": "Albert Hirschman" + "quote": "Firms and other organizations [are] permanently and randomly subject to decline and decay —that is, to a gradual loss of rationality, efficiency, and surplus-producing energy— no matter how well the institutional framework within which they function is designed.", + "author": "Albert Hirschman" }, { - "quote": "It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.", - "author": "Samuel Adams" + "quote": "It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.", + "author": "Samuel Adams" }, { - "quote": "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.", - "author": "Satoshi Nakamoto" + "quote": "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.", + "author": "Satoshi Nakamoto" }, { - "quote": "Inflation is taxation without legislation.", - "author": "Milton Friedman" + "quote": "Inflation is taxation without legislation.", + "author": "Milton Friedman" }, { - "quote": "Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household.", - "author": "Ludwig Von Mises" + "quote": "Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household.", + "author": "Ludwig Von Mises" }, { - "quote": "Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.", - "author": "Henry George" + "quote": "Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.", + "author": "Henry George" }, { - "quote": "The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing —but that will soon be developed— is a reliable e-cash.", - "author": "Milton Friedman" + "quote": "The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing —but that will soon be developed— is a reliable e-cash.", + "author": "Milton Friedman" }, { - "quote": "Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine - the special pleading of selfish interests.", - "author": "Henry Hazlitt" + "quote": "Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine - the special pleading of selfish interests.", + "author": "Henry Hazlitt" }, { - "quote": "Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that.", - "author": "Adam Smith" + "quote": "Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that.", + "author": "Adam Smith" }, { - "quote": "Ambition is common to all men; and those, who are unable to rise to distinction, are at least willing to reduce others to their own standard.", - "author": "William Godwin" + "quote": "Ambition is common to all men; and those, who are unable to rise to distinction, are at least willing to reduce others to their own standard.", + "author": "William Godwin" + }, + { + "quote": "Organizations are permanently and randomly subject to decline and decay — no matter their institutional framework.", + "author": "Albert Hirschman" + }, + { + "quote": "Monopolies don't innovate. The motto of any monopoly is: 'We don't care, because we don't have to.'", + "author": "Marc Andreessen" + }, + { + "quote": "It is self-deception to think that the status quo is going to be satisfactory for everyone forever. It's already not satisfactory for a lot of people.", + "author": "David Deutsch" } -] + ] \ No newline at end of file