Quotes from The Economist

Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep people ignorant of the past and to concentrate their minds on the utopia that lies ahead.

But that is the strange thing about the future. Nothing ages faster than yesterday's dreams of tomorrow.

Don't be too didactic. Your writing shouldn't teach someone, your story should.

Clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought. So think what you want to say, then say it as simply as possible.

Nobody needs to be described as silly: let your analysis show that he is.

For now, tribal instincts backed by institutional machinery, still prop up the old split'.

Convert any common fraction to a decimal fraction by dividing the lower number (denominator) into the upper number (numerator). For example, ¾ = 3 + 4 = 0.75. The result is also known as a proportion. Multiply it by 100 to convert it into a percentage. Recognition