Collegiality is implacably hostile to independence of mind, and it can be avoided only by not having colleagues.
Feb 222017
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Feb 102017
Great innovations appear made by many simultaneously, because we consign to obscurity anyone more than a week or two ahead of his time.
Feb 072017
To be trusted will make most men honest.
Jan 242017
The mark of the journalist is to confuse truth with accuracy.
Jan 182017
Crime committed on a large enough scale ceases to be criminal. It becomes business as usual, or Realpolitik, or statesmanship.
Jan 112017
A career can be fashioned from a single idea. Two may be tolerated. Three or more are fatal.
Dec 302016
Accidents happen not when alarms fail to go off, but when they go off too often.
Nov 042016
The one indispensable element in starting a business is gross overconfidence.
Oct 112016
Nothing offends like efficacy.
Aug 302016
It’s a dog-eat-dog world, unless the dogs happen to belong to the same professional guild.