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Marte Roa Syvertsen: Ordbok for ledere, Tidsskriftet, 2025-09-25
Øyvind Andresen: Ode til fremtidsfaget, 2024-09-08
Øyvind Andresen: Ny utgave av nysnakk-ordboka, 2024-09-04
Vil ha slutt på grønnvasking i flybransjen, Forbrukerrådet, 2023-06-22
Trygve Lundemo: Et magisk ord som har mistet mye kraft, Adressa, 2023-06-21
Magne Børset: Eventyret om studentene som skulle finne bærekraften, Universitetsavisa, 2022-08-23
Arve Hjelseth: Fanden vet hva bærekraft betyr, Universitetsavisa, 2022-03-15
Neil Postman: “Bullshit and the Art of Crap-Detection”, Escaping from Bullshit, 2018-10-08 (PDF)
Carl Sagan: The Fine Art of Baloney Detection. Chapter 12 in Sagan (1996) The Demon-Haunted World
Max Black: The Prevalence of Humbug, 1980
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“These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.”
“It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction…”
― Ben Goldacre
"The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent."
― William Gibson
“Il y a l’intelligence artificielle, il y a aussi la connerie naturelle.”
(“There's artificial intelligence, there's also natural bullshit.”)
—Edgar Morin
“One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood”
― Tim Flannery
"The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit"
—P. J. O'Rourke (1947-2022)
“Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried.”
“Those who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated as high achievers”
― David Graeber (1961-2020)
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth-—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought".
― John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
― W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
"The prevalence of cliches is no accident, but inherent in the nature of information. Property rights in information suffer from the necessary disadvantage that a piece of information, in order to contribute to the general information of the community, must say something substantially different from the community’s previous common stock of information. Even in the great classics of literature and art, much of the obvious informative value has gone out of them, merely by the fact that the public has become acquainted with their contents. Schoolboys do not like Shakespeare, because he seems to them nothing but a mass of familiar quotations. It is only when the study of such an author has penetrated to a layer deeper than that which has been absorbed into the superficial clichés of the time, that we can re-establish with him an informative rapport, and give him a new and fresh literary value."
― Norbert Wiener (1894-1964)
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