The shorter you write, the less you lie.
Dec 152021
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Nov 102021
Never use five words where none will do.
Nov 052021
We are apt to imagine software as scaling indefinitely, which it does not, because we think of it as a form of writing, which does.
Nov 022021
The power of a word lies in what it suggests, not what it means.
Oct 142021
The shortest way to be original is to tell the truth.
Oct 132021
Satire becomes easier and easier until it is impossible.
Aug 202021
Aphorism, of all prose, is the least hospitable.
Jul 262021
Reading great authors improves your writing by making you desperately unhappy with it.
Jun 182021
There is almost nothing that being prefaced with “social” cannot spoil.
Jun 152021
Poetry is language at its limit, as math is logic at its limit; and poetry anxiety, like math anxiety, is only the realization that comprehension requires effort, and the fear that even then it may never arrive.