When you don’t need a doctor, you really don’t need one.
Jul 182014
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Jun 272014
Intellectuals are hostile to businessmen chiefly because the public prefers what the businessmen are selling.
Jun 242014
The more you know how things work, the less you expect them to.
May 272014
Blessed are the toolmakers, for real work consists less in performing difficult tasks than in making them easy.
May 262014
The soldier perfects how at the expense of why.
May 222014
No situation is so desperate that a little hard work and ingenuity can’t make it worse.
May 142014
Notable achievements involve a lot of staring into space.
May 132014
Our doctors have cured so much, so little of it disease.
May 082014
Effort is like medicine: half of it is useless or harmful, and the trick is to know which half.
Apr 292014
Every nuisance that you could fix but tolerate instead represents a small, private, but unmistakable regression to savagery.