Men prefer disaster to delay.
Jan 152015
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Dec 242014
People will cheerfully confess ignorance of a topic and reject indignantly the suggestion that it might debar them from an opinion.
Dec 122014
All metaphors are wrong; some metaphors are useful.
Nov 252014
The Dunning-Kruger effect is especially pronounced in people who know what the Dunning-Kruger effect is.
Nov 042014
Ideologies must be classed not by what they intend to build but by what they intend to destroy.
Oct 302014
Where some has failed, more rarely succeeds.
Oct 242014
People are confused; it does not follow that the universe is paradoxical.
Oct 172014
Often we think ourselves into not just error but the opposite of the truth.
Oct 162014
Most problems are imaginary, and many real problems can be solved by redirecting the attention devoted to the imaginary ones.
Aug 272014
When you have eliminated all other possible explanations, the one that remains, however unlikely, must be that you missed something.