We say that the perfect is the enemy of the good when we mean that the adequate is the enemy of the shoddy.
Jan 172018
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
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.
Sep 152017
It is in fields where expertise is dubious or bogus that practitioners stress the importance of deferring to expertise.
Sep 062017
Placebo is most of medicine, and nocebo is most of philosophy.
Aug 312017
The poor workman blames his sales skills.
Aug 222017
If one’s reach should exceed one’s grasp, then it must be better to fail in large enterprises than succeed in smaller ones.