One must admire psychiatry’s enterprising spirit: not content with lobotomy, electroshock, hydrotherapy, and tranquilization, it has pressed boldly forward to gender reassignment surgery on confused adolescents.
Sep 012022
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Aug 102022
Multitasking is easy; the great trick is to do only one thing at a time.
Aug 042022
It is simple to be a corrupt official, yet the job is frequently botched.
Jul 112022
A salesman, unlike a psychology professor, must understand psychology.
Jun 012022
Talent, to a man who has it, is like water to a fish. It surrounds him, and he sees only his effort to employ it.
May 312022
Art experts concern themselves with provenance because they have no other way to spot a fake.
May 172022
Appointments are made with resignation and kept with foreboding.
Mar 302022
Science is Science, and Policy Policy, and never the twain shall meet.
Mar 032022
Aborigines count 1, 2, many. Journalists count 1, 2, trend. Social scientists count 1, 2, 3, 4, sufficient sample size.
Dec 242021
Some jobs you keep only if you solve the problem you are charged with, others only if you don’t.