Science progresses by funeral, engineering by disaster.
Mar 012013
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Feb 222013
Expertise makes one peremptory, but peremptoriness does not make one expert.
Jan 162013
Bad art leads to bad restaurant service.
Nov 232012
The glass ceiling may be trompe l’oeil.
Nov 202012
Ask if you do your job well, but first ask if it ought to be done at all.
Nov 162012
Indolence wears many subtle disguises; sometimes it appears as fastidious disgust for the second-rate.
Nov 022012
Design is the residue of luck.
Oct 252012
Jobs are like jail, except with time added for good behavior.
Oct 162012
It is impossible to cultivate talent without persistence, but common to persist without talent.
Oct 122012
The impeccably credentialed are always loyal to the reigning order.