#val

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#because #comes #every #favor #harm

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#i #i think #intuitive #lot #shares

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#i #india #realized #silicon #silicon valley

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#downside #environment #fertilizer #golf #great

When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals. ↗

— Jenny Frost

#comes #girl #rivals

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#considering #exchange #expect #favorable #get

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ↗

— Robert Frost

#both #intervals #like #moments #pitchers

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#beliefs #coming #control #know #must