Facts, like food, should be chewed thoroughly before swallowing.
Dec 092014
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Dec 082014
The contrarian attends most scrupulously to conventional wisdom.
Dec 042014
We compensate for limited intelligence with bad memories.
Nov 212014
Every logical fallacy is also a valid heuristic.
Nov 102014
The two great metaphors for society in political philosophy have been machine and organism: thus the two for the individual have been cog and cell.
Oct 152014
Better that X guilty men go free than one innocent man be convicted. Solve for X.
Sep 172014
You can’t be a polymath without the math.
Jun 162014
Every effort to know your own mind changes it, sometimes beyond recognition.
Jun 122014
Doubt of the obvious engenders belief in the impossible.
Jun 062014
Mental effort dwarfs all other costs.