User:Martlau

Hi!

I'm an electrical engineer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. My hobbies, other than aimlessly browsing Wikipedia when other sources of entertainment run out, revolve around behavioral economics and macroeconomics (i.e. economics and psychology). I read The Economist and Nature regularly.

I'm into many sports: volleyball, alpine skiing, various racket sports and white river kayaking.

I admire several persons of science:


 * Carl Friedrich Gauss, this guy invented just about everything!
 * Muhammad Yunus, for micro-credit.
 * Norman Borlaug, for saving millions of people with genetically modified wheat.
 * Daniel Sleator & Robert Trajan, for splay tree and link/cut trees.
 * Jimmy Wales & Larry Sanger, for perhaps the best idea of the 21st century.

Some quotes worth noting:


 * "Rights are a sort of agreement rational people would make before interacting."
 * "Economists observe the past and make lengthy mathematical comments, then bicker with each other about them."
 * "If you are not at the table, you are on the menu." - A wise comment about negotiations.
 * "'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true." - A good bias for a man can be a terrible policy for humanity.
 * "The essence of pleasure is spontaneity." - Planning hedges at the cost of pleasure.

marztlaxu1978@hotmail.com. You can email me by removing the letters z and x. index.

Cheers!

Martin