The novice with only a hammer thinks everything looks like a nail. The expert sets about turning everything into a nail.
Jan 112024
Jan 102024
To do the world’s worst writing, imagine that a simple idea is complex, and then courageously refuse to simplify it.
Jan 092024
A little learning is a dangerous thing, and a lot is more dangerous still.
Jan 082024
Apes and dolphins, unlike humans, recognize themselves in a mirror.
Jan 052024
Good government tends to be dull, and thus rarely preferred to bad.
Jan 042024
Remorse is mostly for not getting away with it.
Jan 032024
The progress-monger gorges on revolution, and dines on legislation
Jan 022024
Hollywood’s raison d’être is the casting couch. The movies are only the means.
Jan 012024
Few men are great, but all great men are men, and when I read of one I want to be told how he was great, not how he was a man.
Dec 292023
Why the rumor persists is a better question than whether it is true.