Engineers build things; then scientists explain how they work.
May 032017
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Apr 252017
Personnel became Human Resources, which will serve as an epigraph for the past century; and then HR, which will serve for the present one.
Mar 212017
To the horrors of war every soldier becomes inured; it is the petty harassments and nagging discomforts of war that dispirit and defeat him.
Mar 012017
Every discipline attempts to transfer sovereignty from the consumer to the producer; “professionalism” is our name for a successful coup.
Feb 222017
Collegiality is implacably hostile to independence of mind, and it can be avoided only by not having colleagues.
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.