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This turned up on Zed's bloggy thing (MemeMachineGo): What the Bubble Got Right. It's an interesting read, but I disagree with one sentence in it: "Good ideas always tend to win eventually." I think that belongs in the same bucket as "there's someone for everyone" and "what goes around comes around" and other such wishful thinking. Bad ideas win on a regular basis, and just because they get trumped fifty years down the line doesn't mean they didn't win. Chances are they got trumped by a worse idea, anyway.

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I think that belongs in the same bucket as "there's someone for everyone" and "what goes around comes around" and other such wishful thinking.

One that recently goaded me to the point of aggressively calm literal-mindedness (I should know better by now) was "Everything happens for a reason".