Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because the world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. - Charlie Munger
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing tht makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.
You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? - Dale Carnegie
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing. - Joel Salatin
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. - Joel Salatin
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food? - Joel Salatin
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. - Joel Salatin
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. - Joel Salatin
That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality. - Joel Salatin
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. - Joel Salatin
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