Everything – Page 160 – A book of aphorisms
Dec 012017
 

Intelligence, n.   The ability to make more elaborate errors, with more plausible justifications.

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 282017
 

Civilization is not a cure for barbarism; it is a respite from barbarism, to be enjoyed while it lasts.

Nov 272017
 

It is astonishing what a lab coat will let you get away with.

Nov 242017
 

We spend the first half of our lives accumulating possessions and the second half getting rid of them.

Nov 232017
 

Accuracy is the last refuge of a liar.

Nov 222017
 

When we wish to follow the man, we find the reasons.

Nov 212017
 

Dissent requires the willingness to set aside a few evenings, dissidence the occasional weekend.

Nov 202017
 

It is our former selves that we especially loathe.