"This is folly in the extreme.
This sits oddly with what he said in January: "Sending in Australian troops to occupy the Solomon Islands would be folly in the extreme.
Make is an unabashed love letter to the variety of human innovation even when maybe especially when it's taken to the extremes of what outsiders consider folly.
"They're taking the lease to the extreme, and it's just literal folly".
But many other areas of morality are not like this, and so even where adherence to moral imperatives may be perilous in the extreme, it may not be the folly that Hobbes's comments make it seem.
Or the folly Ms. Toll calls "the most extreme, in a funny way," the garden hermitage built in Betz, France, in the 18th century by the Princess of Monaco, who recruited a hermit to occupy it.
Bacon's statement points to our myriad attempts to find and understand the "meaning" behind the order we do find in the universe, the order that allows science to exist but which, if taken to unobjective extremes, can produce the follies of astrology, numerology, evolutionary progressionism, and a host of other belief systems.
The great thing about the Getty is it takes reason to such an extreme of scale that it becomes a form of folly.
As entrepreneurs, it's very easy for us to dream or worry in extremes, like taking our companies public or how one folly might result in bankruptcy.
For this is an intensely personal novel, drawing on first-hand observations and atomising with the merciless eye of youth the growing follies, frustrations and eccentricities associated with the tragicomedy of extreme old age.
