Never end up literal, but always start that way.
Apr 262019
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
Apr 172019
If it wasn’t for cognitive biases, I’d have no cognition at all.
Apr 012019
As a competent worker will be promoted into incompetence, so a valuable method or technique will infiltrate disciplines in which it is useless or harmful.
Mar 122019
That there is nothing new under the sun is possibly the oldest argument under the sun.
Feb 182019
We can be sure, when we are told that all interpretation is biased, that an egregiously biased interpretation will shortly follow.
Jan 072019
If A does X, and you ignore it, and B does X, and you condemn it, one may infer that you have more interest in A and B than in X.
Nov 132018
Social justice is to justice what social science is to science.
Oct 042018
Any man who masters the practice of a discipline will be told that he does not understand its theory.
Sep 172018
Think locally, act locally.
Sep 142018
I am reasoned with.
You are persuaded.
He is manipulated.