Quotes About Cycles

Cagan notes that when organizations do not pay their "20% tax," technical debt will increase to the point where an organization inevitably spends all of its cycles paying down technical debt.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

there's so goddamn much history, it just can't help repeating itself.

The transition to virtual machines (optimizing the allocation of processing cycles) and to cloud computing (optimizing storage allocation) marks the beginning of a transformation into a landscape where otherwise wasted resources are being put to use.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

We have to remember that presidents are simply the street signs. The cycle is working itself out in the murky depths.

You know when things get inside you and you can't stop going round and round the same piece of misery.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth—if such a thing can even be said to exist.

Lo aún peor es que el Universo no morirá con nosotros. De manera firme e inmortal continúa hacia sus cambios cíclicos, añadiendo a la injuria de la muerte el insulto de la indiferencia.

Get this,' the trader spoke forcefully and earnestly, 'there are five or six fat slobs who usually run an average planet. They get the rabbit punch, but I'm not losing peace of mind over them. See. The people? The ordinary run of guys? Sure, some get killed, and the rest pay extra taxes for a while. But it settles itself out; it runs itself down. And then it's the old situation again with a different five or six.

si uno vive lo suficiente, los círculos se cierran.

Los jóvenes vieron los ciclos inevitables de vida, muerte, transformacion y renacimiento como un maravilloso dibujo en el cual todo ocurre simultáneamente, sin pasado, presente o futuro, ahora desde siempre y para siempre.

Much that I sought, I could not find; much that I found, I could not bind; much that I bound, I could not free; much that I freed, returned to me.

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Time brings all things to pass.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

Love doesn't always show us the sad and the sorrowful part of it, it only shows us the happy circle a gain and a gain.

at any point in time, the richest traders are often the worst traders. This, I will call the cross-sectional problem: At a given time in the market, the most successful traders are likely to be those that are best fit to the latest cycle. This does not happen too often with dentists or pianists—because these professions are more immune to randomness.

the cycles of risk taking in the economy as following a pattern: stability and absence of crises encourage risk taking, complacency, and lowered awareness of the possibility of problems. Then