Sunday, June 10, 2007

Quote of the day, 6/10/07

...whenever my...theories don't fit reality and/or cause harm to people, I change my theories. Seems simple enough, but it does require admitting that I'm wrong from time to time, and I'm coming to understand that a fuckload lot more people than I'd have guessed would rather go to war than admit that they've made a mistake.


Jen in Ohio

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heh, it's a little disorienting to come check your threads and find my own text on your front page. Thanks for the nod, Belledame.

belledame222 said...

not at all, it's bang on.

Anonymous said...

Recalls a comment from John Maynard Keynes, responding to somebody who'd criticized him for changing his mind: "When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?"

Veronica said...

Wow. There's someone else out there willing to blog Wham! videos...

Anonymous said...

Wham! videos aren't as low as I'm willing to go, either. I did hair metal 80s a few weeks ago, and sooner or later I'll get around to the atrocities of late 70s synthpop.

Elizabeth McClung said...

Good quote - I have always known based on past history that I am probably wrong in some way and likely many ways at any one time - but since I don't have the information to figure out where I am wrong as yet (because I would change honest!) - I just try to do no harm. Except when I get pissed off...which only happens 52 times a year. So I'm improving.