Folly leads, evil follows.
Aug 162016
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Jul 182016
One can be too fair-minded, but it is not a common problem.
Jul 112016
We measure first-order effects, guess at the second order, and the third order is like the third bottle of wine — all bets are off.
Jul 082016
Many who understand that suspicion is a strategy, not a model, persist in treating trust as a model, not a strategy.
Jun 292016
In philosophy correspondence and coherence vary inversely.
Jun 202016
The truth shall set you on anyone who will listen.
Jun 102016
You see your own viewpoint about as well as you hear your own accent.
May 272016
It must be easier to fix the world than it is to fix a dishwasher; there are so many more people who know how.
May 172016
The worst example is the unique success.
May 122016
What is called stupidity is often only intelligence gone horribly wrong.