From my friend Cary Perkins who found this gem:
Charles Sanders Peirce quote of the day: In the late 1800s, Peirce makes a prediction: "The twentieth-century, in its latter half, shall surely see the deluge-tempest burst upon the social order, -- to clear upon a world as deep in ruin as that greed-philosophy has plunged it into guilt…. You might pronounce the Wall Street sharp to be a good angel, who takes money from heedless persons not likely to guard it properly, who wrecks feeble enterprises better stopped, and who administers wholesome lessons to unwary scientific men, by passing worthless checks among them… (357)." Peirce’s prediction – projecting a century into the future – is remarkable but all the worse for its uncanny accuracy.