A professor is, quite literally, someone who does not draw the conclusions from his own premises.
Dec 122017
Dec 112017
A belief no fact can sink no fact can float.
Dec 082017
The aphorist strives for the shock of recognition, the moment it dawns on the reader that, yes, that is just what other people are like.
Dec 072017
The good cause that leads to bad outcomes may not be all that good a cause.
Dec 062017
A very few rigorous social processes — scientific method, trial by jury — converge on truth reliably. Argument is not among them.
Dec 052017
Valid, complete arguments are known as proofs. The rest is philosophy.
Dec 042017
The ideologue is at his most ideological when assuring you that the matter in question is beyond ideology.
Dec 012017
Intelligence, n. The ability to make more elaborate errors, with more plausible justifications.
Nov 302017
The danger of writing to a schedule is sloppy, repetitive, inflated work; the danger of not writing to a schedule is no work.
Nov 292017
Merit is only achievement, and meritocracy only mandarinism.