An Economics of Abundance

“The natural world has this principle of abundance, you know, life is kind of an abundant thing and in the material world we'd have double entry book keeping which says if I give you something then it's gone. But the world of ideas in the natural world doesn’t really quite operate in the same way that the warehouse with the ledger book operates. And, also, the nature of information in the nature of these complex systems causes us to have to re-examine our economics because we have an economics of abundance instead of an economics of scarcity”

- Bill Joy, Co-founder, Sun Micro Systems in a BBC Global Business interview in the 6 part series titled “Future Perfect”

Reminds me of a Sanskrit saying, "Throw one grain of rice at the Earth, and you get one hundred grains back."

Einstein on atheism

"The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses'-- cannot hear the music of the spheres."

- Albert Einstein

Those who believe they are free, are free

Mamai Vansho jeevalokay --
Created in the image of God -
presumes there's free well at source and essence, but

Muktabhimaano mukto, cha baddho baddhabhi maanya pi
expresses the Hindoo thinking well -
Those who believe they are free, are free;
those who believe they are tied up, are indeed, tied up...

Ya mati saa gati
As the mind, so does your condition become

The Fruit of Patience is always sweeter

I think there is such a thing as "Heat hibernation" Yes, that's it, I am hibernating.

It has been three days and I still cannot access this blog (a friend is posting this).

I brought this up with my mother, she said, "Son, how many times do I hae to tell you before I die that the fruit of patience is always sweeter. "

I said, "You don't understand. This a blog, they don't grow on trees"

She says sweetly "Makes no difference. The Fruit of patience is always sweeter. "

"But they are not fruit".

"If they are not fruit, why are you upsetting yourself, " she says.

I wish she were George W Bush's Mom. She'd've straightened him faster than you can open a jiffy bag.

The day humans... won't need God

"The day humans will make the sky a skin they can wrap around themselves, will be the day when they won't need God"

- Sanskrit Shloka in ShvetaasvarOpanishaad

War President

Bush proudly says he's a War president... It's a little like saying "I am a Syphillis President"

IOU: Information, Outformation, Useformation

IOU: Information, Outformation, Useformation

The formations must enter equilibrium; a tri-quilibrium, if you will.

This IOU Triquilibrium (Information-Outformation-Useformation) is not yet globally concepted or locally implemented.

The World-Bank-admitted Global Disparity Ratio, revised by the Brookings Institution at an unsustainable 135:1, evidences this.

Perhaps NIŞTHÄ can catalyze triquilibrium-customizations within the afore-identified Triangle and beyond.

Planning is essential, plans are useless

“Planning is essential, plans are useless.”- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would modify his words a bit, and change it to,

“Making an effort is essential, but effort is useless.”

Or attempting achievement is essential, but achievement is useless. We are doing creatures, we keep doing and doing; sometimes it appears that things have succeeded, and people applaud, but anyone who has achieved knows that there is so much more and better that can be done; very seldom are we satisfied with the effort that has been perceived as successful.

When there’s “cycle” there is no “Michael”

I struggled with my computer today, as usual, and that brought to mind this song:

When there’s “cycle” (Net-connectivity) there is no “Michael” (power) and when there is Michael, there is no cycle.

- Bollywood song

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”

– Mohandas K. Gandhi

The Owl of Minerva

Hegel is saying that death is the great clarifier. We only come to grasp an historical epoch or a form of consciousness retrospectively, when it is over and finished.

“The Owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”

- G.W.F. Hegel, preface to The Philosophy of Right.

We think forward but understand backward

We think forward but understand backward.

- Louis O. Mink, Mind, History and Dialectic: The Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1969), p. 18. Quoted by Joseph M. Felser in “After the Revolution, or, Paradigms Lost: Outsiders, Anomalies, and the Future of ‘Forbidden Science’.”

The greatest poem ever known

I like to quote the first and last verses of this by Christopher Morley:

The greatest poem ever known / Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold / Of being only four years old….
And Life, that sets all things in rhyme, / May make you poet, too, in time–
But there were days, O tender elf, / When you were Poetry itself!

The full version below…

The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold
Of being only four years old.

Still young enough to be a part
Of Nature’s great impulsive heart,
Born comrade of bird, beast and tree
And unselfconscious as the bee-

And yet with lovely reason skilled
Each day new paradise to build
Elate explorer of each sense,
Without dismay, without pretense!

In your unstained transparent eyes
There is no conscience, no surprise:
Life’s queer conundrums you accept,
Your strange Divinity still kept.

And Life, that sets all things in rhyme,
May make you poet, too, in time–
But there were days, O tender elf,
When you were Poetry itself!

If all good people were clever

If all good people were clever, and all clever people were good
The world would be better than ever, we thought it possibly could.
But somehow ‘tis seldom or never, that the two hit it off together
For the good are so harsh to the clever, & the clever so rude to the good.

– Elizabeth Wordsworth

The Greeks were suspicious of democracy

"The Greeks were suspicious of democracy. They felt that people often made bad decisions which went against their interest. People could also be manipulated by demagogues and vested interests."

- Gucharan

I'd rather be an employee in a gaming house than a physicist

I'd rather be "an employee in a gaming house than a physicist".

- Einstein, who despised quantum mechanics, scoffed at the quantum mechanical mode of inquiry.