"Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world"

"The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice." Isaac Asimov, Foundation #ideas #foundation

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." Friedrich Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society The Austrian case is that fear of the future under a planned system isn't a bug, it's the correct signal that the system is wrong. #ideas #hayek

"By the time we awaken faintly to the awareness that we have been socially conditioned, we find ourselves so indoctrinated that it's difficult, if not impossible, to break the old patterns." — Frank Herbert, Man's Future in Space (1981) #ideas #dune

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."