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Category Archive: 1964

Niall Ferguson Quote: “We historians are increasingly using experimental…”

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It’s a miracle that we get anything right.

May 13, 2019 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Yochai Benkler Quote: “Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent…”

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It’s how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

April 13, 2019 1964, Israeli, Quotes by Educators, Yochai Benkler

Niall Ferguson Quote: “The real point of me isn’t…”

The real point of me isn’t that I’m good looking. It’s that I’m clever. I’ve got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.

April 2, 2019 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “The rise of the West is…”

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

March 15, 2019 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “One of the main arguments that…”

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, ‘The Great Degeneration,’ is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

February 4, 2019 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “I think that it is important…”

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

February 4, 2019 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “As a teacher, my strategy is…”

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet.

January 2, 2019 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Ask me not, ‘Are you rightwing,’…”

Ask me not, ‘Are you rightwing,’ but ask me ‘Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?’ Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the ‘Wealth of Nations’ and the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments,’ then I’m rightwing.

November 10, 2018 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Yochai Benkler Quote: “Computation, storage, and communications capacity are…”

Benkler Quote, man holding a phone (iphone) in his hads
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person – and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

October 16, 2018 1964, Israeli, Quotes by Educators, Yochai Benkler

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