To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes:
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Other People's Money
The best movie about capitalism ever made. Presents the essential dilemma posed by creative destruction. First the argument for tradition by Gregory Peck: