@byrnb.bsky.social
retired software professional. Interests: prediction, forecasting, how time passes and our pastimes
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
-- Hunter S. Thompson
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
-- Hunter S. Thompson
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
-- Groucho Marx
-- Groucho Marx
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
-- Groucho Marx
-- Groucho Marx
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
-- H L Mencken
-- H L Mencken
October 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
-- H L Mencken
-- H L Mencken
Forecasting is a notoriously underpaid profession, and extremely risky to boot, so I avoid it.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John Kenneth Galbraith
October 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Forecasting is a notoriously underpaid profession, and extremely risky to boot, so I avoid it.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortaility can always be assured by spectacular error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John Kenneth Galbraith
October 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If all else fails, immortaility can always be assured by spectacular error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.
-- Jerry Garcia.
-- Jerry Garcia.
October 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.
-- Jerry Garcia.
-- Jerry Garcia.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enought.
-- Albert Einstein
-- Albert Einstein
October 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I never think of the future. It comes soon enought.
-- Albert Einstein
-- Albert Einstein
But I was born too late. Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
-- Bob Dylan
-- Bob Dylan
October 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
But I was born too late. Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
-- Bob Dylan
-- Bob Dylan
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
-- Economist Irving Fisher, in 1928
-- Economist Irving Fisher, in 1928
September 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
-- Economist Irving Fisher, in 1928
-- Economist Irving Fisher, in 1928
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
September 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
-- Karl Marx
-- Karl Marx
The best way out is always through.
-- Robert Frost
-- Robert Frost
September 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The best way out is always through.
-- Robert Frost
-- Robert Frost
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
-- Larry Summers
-- Larry Summers
September 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
-- Larry Summers
-- Larry Summers
Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million.
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
September 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million.
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
-- Ambrose Bierce
-- Ambrose Bierce
September 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
-- Ambrose Bierce
-- Ambrose Bierce
[In planning for battle] I have found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
-- Dwight D Eisenhower
-- Dwight D Eisenhower
September 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
[In planning for battle] I have found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
-- Dwight D Eisenhower
-- Dwight D Eisenhower
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
-- Warren Buffett
-- Warren Buffett
September 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
-- Warren Buffett
-- Warren Buffett
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
-- Spanish proverb
-- Spanish proverb
September 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
-- Spanish proverb
-- Spanish proverb
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S Thompson
-- Hunter S Thompson
September 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S Thompson
-- Hunter S Thompson
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
-- John Maynard Keynes
-- John Maynard Keynes
August 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
-- John Maynard Keynes
-- John Maynard Keynes
Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
-- Paul Samuelson
-- Paul Samuelson
August 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
-- Paul Samuelson
-- Paul Samuelson
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
--- Abraham Lincoln
--- Abraham Lincoln
August 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
--- Abraham Lincoln
--- Abraham Lincoln
Fortune favors the bold.
-- Vergil (70 BC - 21 BC)
-- Vergil (70 BC - 21 BC)
August 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Fortune favors the bold.
-- Vergil (70 BC - 21 BC)
-- Vergil (70 BC - 21 BC)
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
August 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
-- Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (1899-1973)
-- Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (1899-1973)
August 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
-- Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (1899-1973)
-- Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (1899-1973)
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
-- Dave Barry
-- Dave Barry
August 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
-- Dave Barry
-- Dave Barry