Always speak Truth to Power, once you’re sure Power isn’t going to option your novel.
Apr 112018
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Apr 042018
Journalists, Kraus said, are writers who do not understand their subject — for which their remedy is to read each other assiduously.
Mar 302018
The modern tragedy is that the procedures that revolutionized science happen to be disastrous when applied anywhere else.
Feb 092018
You don’t fight for your country: you fight for your platoon.
Jan 172018
We say that the perfect is the enemy of the good when we mean that the adequate is the enemy of the shoddy.
Jan 032018
No child aspires to become employable when he grows up.
Nov 302017
The danger of writing to a schedule is sloppy, repetitive, inflated work; the danger of not writing to a schedule is no work.
Nov 292017
Merit is only achievement, and meritocracy only mandarinism.
Nov 072017
A successful corporation is a triumph of central planning.
Sep 162017
If policy simply achieved its ends, a new outlet would have to be found for the ingenuity expended in its defense.