Everything – Page 125 – A book of aphorisms
Apr 022019
 

To do the same thing over and over expecting different results is reputed to be insanity, and yet we persist in elections.

Apr 012019
 

As a competent worker will be promoted into incompetence, so a valuable method or technique will infiltrate disciplines in which it is useless or harmful.

Mar 292019
 

Those who suffer for their art usually make you suffer for it too.

Mar 272019
 

It is expensive to be poor, and wildly expensive to be stupid.

Mar 262019
 

Flash mobs appeared from nowhere, a few years ago, and vanished as suddenly as they came.

Mar 252019
 

Democracy is the conviction that my policy preferences are widely held, and populism is the fear that yours are.

Mar 222019
 

To be wrongfully accused of an illness is far more serious than to be wrongfully accused of a crime.

Mar 212019
 

Writing is irresponsible, and aphorism is the most irresponsible form of writing.

Mar 202019
 

There are no murders of great civilizations — only suicides.