My Dots for Saturday, September 15, 2007

A collection of many interesting quotes from Alan Greenspan’s new book, “The Age of Turbulence.”

Quoted: Venice, I realized, is the antithesis of creative destruction. It exists to conserve and appreciate the past, not create a future. But that, I realized, is exactly the point. The city caters to a deep human need for stability and permanence as well as beauty and romance. Venice’s popularity represents one pole of a conflict in human nature: the struggle between the desire to increase material well-being and the desire to ward off change and its attendant stress.”

A NYT piece about Ayn Rand’s influence on well known capitalists, including Alan Greenspan.

Quoted: Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,”a glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest, influenced Alan Greenspan and others.