Everything – Page 12 – A book of aphorisms
Aug 152023
 

There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are documentaries.

Aug 142023
 

The Stages of Loss and Grief

1. People will understand you
2. People will understand your book
3. People will read your book
4. People will buy your book

Aug 112023
 

Processing power is often said to be a poor substitute for understanding; in fact it is understanding that turns out to be the poor substitute for processing power.

Aug 102023
 

There can be order without law, but not law without order.

Aug 092023
 

Chico Marx: “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
Modern Social Science: “The plural of anecdote is not data.”

Aug 072023
 

Only a tiny minority of the employees of a large corporation concern themselves, even in an abstract and indirect way, with profit and loss.

Aug 042023
 

There is a modern branch of psychology, which deserves its own name, devoted to enumerating the defects of character in people who hold unauthorized opinions.

Aug 032023
 

A new idea is almost always false, and persecuted with special zeal when it happens to be true.

Aug 022023
 

When distinguished people try to be common, common people no longer try to be distinguished.