Talent, to a man who has it, is like water to a fish. It surrounds him, and he sees only his effort to employ it.
Jun 012022
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
May 312022
Art experts concern themselves with provenance because they have no other way to spot a fake.
May 172022
Appointments are made with resignation and kept with foreboding.
Mar 302022
Science is Science, and Policy Policy, and never the twain shall meet.
Mar 032022
Aborigines count 1, 2, many. Journalists count 1, 2, trend. Social scientists count 1, 2, 3, 4, sufficient sample size.
Dec 242021
Some jobs you keep only if you solve the problem you are charged with, others only if you don’t.
Nov 182021
What the machine can do, we need not; and if we need not, soon we cannot.
Nov 172021
The purveyor of a cure does not, unless he is a madman, spread the ill; but he can scarcely help spreading belief in it.
Nov 032021
Modern Westerners are, by historical standards, awash with leisure, much of which we use to complain about working all the time.
Oct 212021
Every charitable foundation does more harm than good, if it lasts long enough, eventually falling into the hands of people who wish to run charitable foundations.