Trip Gabriel: J. Preston Van Winkle, the fourth generation in the business, said that he and his father, Julian Van Winkle III, are raising production because of the demand, but that it takes time. "You can't make 20-year bourbon in less than 20 years," he said.
Connie Herring: You can't pay it forward if you're broke.
Maciej Ceglowski: Walden is a layered work. You can't just go in and strip-mine it for a bunch of Tim Ferriss-style life hacks ...
Douglas R. Hofstadter, on the life-extension work of Ray Kurzweil: A very bizarre mixture of ideas that are solid and good with ideas that are crazy. It's as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad.
Freddie deBoer: Sometimes you have to eat shit in your life, so you eat it. It's just a question of what you can accept and what you can't.
The Electoral Victor: You have elected yourselves, you see, and you can't get a more fair dinkum democratic outcome than that.
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