When one relative embezzles from another, it’s always the brother-in-law — just close enough for nepotism, just distant enough that he can’t be entirely trusted.
Oct 062022
Oct 052022
Criticism, even good criticism, helps you see what the critic describes and hinders you from seeing anything else.
Oct 042022
The biggest problems are small problems, iterated indefinitely.
Oct 032022
Even public relations suffers from science-envy: it is no accident that Relativity came between Barnum and Bernays.
Sep 302022
The facts I remember are too good to check.
Sep 292022
At high stakes one must forget them.
Sep 282022
Moral philosophy warns us sternly against deriving ought from is, when it is far more common, and pernicious, to derive is from ought.
Sep 272022
To engage in morally dubious activities on a small scale, you have to pay off the local politicians and police. On a large scale it becomes necessary to endow chairs at Harvard.
Sep 262022
At every public lecture the audience, no matter how small, includes at least one member who doesn’t have a question, exactly, more like a comment.
Sep 232022
Crime is like most problems: you don’t need to know the cause to fix it.