Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Robert J. Samuelson

Born: December 23, 1945
Died: December 13, 2025 (aged 79)
Bio: Robert Jacob Samuelson was a journalist for The Washington Post, where he wrote about business and economic issues from 1977 to 2020. He was also syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group and was a columnist for Newsweek magazine from 1984 to 2011.
Known for:
- The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath (2008)
- Good Life & Its Discontent (1995)
- Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong (2001)







