“If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
“Market failure.”
Aug 302023
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Aug 092023
Chico Marx: “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
Modern Social Science: “The plural of anecdote is not data.”
Aug 042023
There is a modern branch of psychology, which deserves its own name, devoted to enumerating the defects of character in people who hold unauthorized opinions.
Jul 142023
When you encounter what seems inexplicable, check that it exists.
Jun 142023
I fought the Zeitgeist and the Zeitgeist won.
Jun 072023
To have opinions is a private vice; to air them is a public nuisance.
May 052023
All samples are convenient, and thus no samples are random.
Apr 112023
Talk of rights is usually cant; talk of human rights always is.
Mar 302023
Genuine truth-seekers make unfashionable errors.
Mar 202023
The wish that things were otherwise, if ardent enough, becomes, by degrees, the belief that they are.