Albert Einstein Quotes

“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.” “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” “If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut” “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” “Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” “Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.” “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing” “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking” “Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it” “The only real valuable thing is intuition.” “The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything” “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” Albert Einstein

Hierarchies are systematically stupid and inefficient, for the following reasons.

1. Hayekian information problems:

The people in authority who make the rules interfere with the people who know how to do the job and are in direct contact with the situation. The people who make the rules know nothing about the work they’re interfering with. The people who make the rules are unaccountable to the people who do know how to do the work. Consequently, all authority-based rules create suboptimal results and irrationality when they interfere with the judgment of those in direct contact with the situation.

People in authority make stupid decisions because the people who know more than they do are their subordinates, and the only people who can hold them accountable know even less than they do.

The only way the people doing the work can get anything done is to treat irrational authority as an obstacle to be routed around, the same way the Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it.

2. Groupthink:

Hierarchies systematically suppress negative feedback on the results of their policies. As R.A. Wilson said, nobody tells the truth to a man with a gun. Hierarchies are very good at telling naked emperors how good their clothes look.

Hierarchies also systematically suppress critical thinking ability in their members. Psychological studies have found that people in positions of authority become less likely to evaluate communications based on their internal logic, and instead evaluate them based on the authority of the source.

3. Opacity from above: A major theme of “Seeing Like a State,” by James Scott, is that states try to make populations “legible” from above, and hence more amenable to control. We might add a “seeing like a boss” corrollary about the analogous phenomenon inside hierarchies. The problem is that such legibility is very costly, if not impossible, to achieve.

Hospitals are a good example. Most of the paperwork that nurses are required to fill out results from the fact that management doesn’t trust them to do what it wants them to do without some independent means of verification. But the paperwork is worthless, unless management operates on the assumption that those same nurses can be trusted to fill out the paperwork honestly. It all boils down to the fact that management knows their interests are diametrically opposed to those of the nurses, but there’s no way to actually get inside the nurses’ heads and look out through their eyes and thereby overcome this fundamental agency problem. So bosses constantly look for new, ineffectual gimmicks to get around the problem, resulting in endless layers of new paperwork that are as useless as the old paperwork.

Conclusion. To the extent that hierarchical organizations leave subordinates with freedom of exit, they are not coercive in the same way that the state is. But given that hierarchies are artificially prevalent because of state policies, and those who work within them do so as a necessary evil resulting from artificial constraints on the range of competing opportunities, the hierarchy resembles a microcosm of statist society, in which the agency and knowledge problems of authority internally mirror the irrationalities created by state authority in society at large.

So long as the predominant production methods required large aggregations of capital beyond the means of individuals and small groups, and corporate hierarchies were propped up by state ones, the cultural pathologies of hierarchy were surmountable. But technological change is rapidly eroding the requirement for capital outlays, nullifying the advantages of capital ownership, and increasing the vulnerability of hierarchy to external and internal attacks by self-organized networks.

So hierarchies, increasingly, lack the resources to compensate for their handicaps — even with help from the state. The state will only bankrupt itself, along with corporate hierarchies, in trying to prop up the old order.

C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson is a contemporary mutualist author and individualist anarchist whose written work includes Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, and The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto, all of which are freely available online. Carson has also written for such print publications as The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty and a variety of internet-based journals and blogs, including Just Things, The Art of the Possible, the P2P Foundation and his own Mutualist Blog.

Unethical Judge Ciavarella now painting

BILL O ’ BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com

WILKES-BARRE – Corrupt Former Luzerne County judge Mark Ciavarella is painting for a living these days.

Mark Ciavarella corrupt former Luzerne County judge paints at a home on McLean Street in Wilkes-Barre.Mark Ciavarella, former Luzerne County judge, paints at a home on McLean Street in Wilkes-Barre.CLARK VAN ORDEN/THE TIMES LEADER

Mark Ciavarella Judge Conahan corrupt former Luzerne County judges

Former Luzerne County Judges Michael Conahan, left, and Mark Ciavarella, right, depart the Federal Courthouse in Scranton after facing indictments relating to the Luzerne County corruption probe.

Fred Adams / For Times Leader

On Thursday, Ciavarella was painting a porch at 313 McLean St. owned by Bob Kadluboski, owner of City Wide Towing.

Kadluboski is a frequent vocal critic of Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tom Leighton and City Council, at times calling them “corrupt” and saying they should be investigated.

“Yes, he (Ciavarella) has been doing odd jobs for me,” Kadluboski said. “He’s not my employee. He’s an independent contractor.”

Kadluboski said Ciavarella has been doing work for other people, but he would not identify any. Ciavarella, through Kadluboski, declined to comment for this story. Kadluboski said he and Ciavarella were “on the road” and the former judge would not comment.

In February, a federal jury convicted Ciavarella of illegally accepting money relating to the construction of the PA Child Care center, but rejected allegations he extorted Robert Powell or accepted money relating to a second juvenile center.

The jury found Ciavarella guilty of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, money laundering and money laundering conspiracy relating to the $997,600 finder’s fee he received from Robert Mericle, the builder of the center. It also found him guilty of honest services mail fraud for filing fraudulent statements of financial interest with a state agency and five tax counts for filing false tax returns.

He was acquitted on multiple counts of bribery, extortion and money laundering relating to the more than $700,000 that was paid to him and former judge Michael Conahan by Powell, as well as honest services wire fraud relating to money paid by Powell and Mericle. Conahan pleaded guilty last year to one count of racketeering conspiracy.

Both Ciavarella and Conahan are awaiting sentencing.

Kadluboski said Ciavarella has been working for him “on and off” for a few months. The former city contracted tower said he didn’t want to make a big deal out of Ciavarella working for him.

Kadluboski later decided to explain why he occasionally hires Ciavarella for work.

“About 21 years ago, a friend of mine was paralyzed in an accident and Mark Ciavarella was his attorney,” Kadluboski said. “The case took two years to resolve. When the case was settled, Mark Ciavarella sent my friend a letter, and he still has it. The letter informed my friend that Ciavarella wanted him to have their fee of $25,000. He basically worked for nothing.”

Kadluboski said he wanted to do what he could to help Ciavarella out by giving him a few jobs to do.  There are many who look forward to these two judges doing jobs in Prison.

About the Authors

About Bob Podolsky

The main things you need to know about me are these:

  • My life is primarily driven by curiosity. At the age of five I got hold of my parents’ alarm clock and took it apart because I wanted to see how it worked. (Oooops!) My folks weren’t happy about this, but my father, a famous physicist (Boris Podolsky), understood my urge to know how the world works and encouraged me in this ever after.
  • My father Boris,  also taught me, at an early age, the basic principles of science and the scientific method  which exist only to distinguish true information from false information  so I became a devotee of truth, and remain so to this day.
  • My career experience is not particularly distinguished. I spent ten years doing mathematical physics and systems analysis in industry and government. Then I spent twenty-five years doing psychotherapy in private practice.
  • In 1984 I became friends with the late John David Garcia, who got me interested in the subject of ethics, and since then I have written five books and a number of articles about ethics, law, and government and their impact on our lives. In this my systems analysis background stood me in good stead. It turns out our societal institutions are pretty easy to analyze once you get past the lies that they tell.
  • In 1995 I got interested in the Internet and building websites to do online marketing. At that time the Internet had not yet evolved to the point where it provided the tools needed to do this effectively  so my efforts came to naught but I learned a lot about how the Internet works and taught myself enough HTML and database programming to build websites and to recognize true information about the Internet when I read it.
Boris Podolsky

Boris Podolsky

My father was Boris Podolsky, the physicist who achieved considerable notice for the work he did with Albert Einstein in 1935 for his work on the EPR Paradox.  But Einstein didn’t like the idea that the momentum of a particle, if it’s position was known, was completely unknowable–random. He wasn’t the only one who didn’t like the theory. In 1935 he got together with two other like-minded physicists, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, and wrote a famous paper entitled Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete? We now refer to it as simply the EPR Paradox

Of Boris, Einstein once said, “Podolsky goes directly to the heart of the problem”. Boris was also a brilliant teacher. So I was very early-on introduced to the scientific method, logic, and the operational point of view, the philosophical cornerstones of science.

As a student I followed in my father’s footsteps by studying math and physics in high school, Williams College, the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, the University of Hawaii (where I received a National Science Foundation Fellowship for research in quantum electrodynamics), and Harvard.  I have a Master’s degree in theoretical physics,

Overlapping my formal education, and subsequently, I worked in industry (Avco, GE, Bendix) and in the Civil Service (USAF Avionics Lab and Coast Guard HQ) performing mathematical modeling of complex physical systems, such as atomic reactors, guided missiles, electron microscope lenses, external combustion engines, and the like.

After ten years of this work, I tired of the “Dilbert” lifestyle and its bureaucratic environment; so I got trained in various methods and techniques of psychotherapy and operated a private practice in this field for some twenty-five years. During this period, some of my clients were business-people; so I studied business systems and entrepreneurship and did some consulting in this field.

John David Garcia

John David Garcia

In 1984 I met John David Garcia, the brilliant author of “Creative Transformation” and remained friends with him until his death in 2001. Under John David’s tutelage I came to understand and value the field of ethics that I had scorned as a young man. I have since seen it as the most important field that anyone can master; because, through the lens of ethics, one can make vastly better decisions than one can by any other means.

By 1992 I had begun writing articles, and subsequently books, about ethics, law, and government. My research in the intervening years showed me unequivocally that the institutions that we usually look to, to solve societal problems, were actually the cause of all the major problems that our species faces. After the work I had done analyzing physical systems, the analysis of societal systems turned out to be a very simple matter. The three big offenders in this respect turn out to be Big Business (especially Big Banking Business), Organized Religion, and Government. Borrowing an idea from Star Trek, I have coined the phrase B.O.R.G when referencing these three institutions collectively.  To date I’ve written five books about the B.O.R.G. problem and what can be done about it. Two of these (self-published) books are in print, and two more are ready for publication at any time.

I am the Founding member of Titania, a non hierarchical society dedicated to peace, love and truth; through ethics and creativity I look forward to you feedback!  info $at# titanians )dot< org or contact us by phone at 561-542-5800

 

 

Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Xavier University Physics Department 1962

Top Row:Jack Rivers, Harold Glaser, Eugen Merzbacher, John B. Hart, Jack A. Soules, Eugene Guth, Abner Shimony, Robert Podolsky, Austin Towle Middle row: Willian Band, Gideon Carmi, Solomon L Schwebel, Dieter Brill, O.von Roos, Michael M. Yanasee, S.J. Bottom Row: Eugene P. Wigner, Nathan Rosen, P.A.M. Dirac, Boris Podolsky, Yakir Aharonov, Wendell H. Flurry Not Pictured : Fredrick G. Werner and Kaiser S. Kunz

QM Xavier University Physics Conference Podolsky Rosen Dirac

Top Row:Jack Rivers, Harold Glaser, Eugen Merzbacher, John B. Hart, Jack A. Soules, Eugene Guth, Abner Shimony, Robert Podolsky, Austin Towle
Middle row: Willian Band, Gideon Carmi, Solomon L Schwebel, Dieter Brill, O.von Roos, Michael M. Yanasee, S.J.
Bottom Row: Eugene P. Wigner, Nathan Rosen, Paul A. M.  Dirac, Boris Podolsky, Yakir Aharonov, Wendell H. Furry
Not Pictured : Fredrick G. Werner and Kaiser S. Kunz

ABOUT THOMAS COSTANZO

Wow, what a long strange Trip it’s been!  Many of my friends know me as Morpheus.  I use this handle, tongue in cheek, as my experience with co-incidences we are living in some kind of science fiction movie, and I might as well play my part, to the best of my ability!

Most of my life has been fueled by the big question mark known as ‘why’.  Back in 2004, my life took a gigantic right turn, moving from Anthem, Arizona to Boca Raton, Florida were I met Robert (Bob) Podolsky at a Libertarian meeting near West Palm Beach.   I knew right away Bob had some of the answers I was looking for.   Bob started talking about Creativity and Ethics and how they were linked.   He shared with me that hierarchies was where the problems came from.  Being sort of a Libertarian, even though I have the privileged of never voting, I knew that the Government was bad, almost Evil.  The Federal Reserve was Evil, and being a recovering Roman Catholic, I had a feeling Organized Religion was a snow job.

Bob let me know these entities were not separate, they were just parts of the same Organization, a cartel really.  To be more precise they are parasites operating as part of the Power Brokerage Cartel we call as the B.O.R.G.  The B.O.R.G. is an acronym coined by Bob, which stands for Banks and Big Business, Organized Religion, and Government.  These are the institutions that most people think of to SOLVE problems, Actually they create the problems first and then they Manage these created problems, for a small fee of course!  Many of the concepts Bob was explaining to me made more sense than anything else I had ever heard, especially since Bob had a solution to the Hierarchical problems

The trouble with these BORG’s  created problems is they have to continue to Grow, and the small fee gets larger.  When some upstart decides they do not like being part of a social contract they have never volunteered into and can never get out of them.  They get tired of being a SLAVE, those people who get the B.O.R.G. mad at them, generally will have their lives destroyed, end up in prison, or Dead.   Remember the American President who attempted to get out of Vietnam and go around the Federal reserve and print silver certificates, his initials were JFK.  Those that hold power when, who when they cross the B.O.R.G. will have war waged on them or be cut off (embargoed) for not participating in their game.

After understanding what the source of ALL the problems in the world were caused by this hierarchical group of Psychopaths known as the BORG, Bob also let me know that there is actually a solution to the BIG PROBLEM. To correct this imbalance, individuals are needed to create competing, non hierarchical groups know as Octologues, which is a group of 8 people, 4 men and 4 women that work unanimously to direct energy in any ethical way they see what they fit.  Its simple really: in an octologue members must agree or the group can not make a decision.  The simple beauty here is that the system encourages feedback.  Hierarchical structures is there to avoid, eliminate and destroy any feedback and where as the non hierarchical Octologue feedback is fostered and encouraged.

From here, it is part of my Destiny to bring Titania to the world.  A Gaiawyrd.  I have every reason to believe it is the solution to humanity’s BIG PROBLEM.  Unless it is implemented, NOW, the great science experiment known as the Human race will end. Period!

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