Everything – Page 179 – A book of aphorisms
Mar 102017
 

You can’t tell a man what he doesn’t know he doesn’t know.

Mar 092017
 

We have a lot of use for computers, but they will not have much use for us.

Mar 072017
 

Those who say they don’t believe in love, or art, or politics, or God, always believe acutely, piercingly, in their disbelief.

Mar 062017
 

Anti-colonialism, n.   The belief that local traditional cultures must be protected and preserved, unless they involve Christianity or NASCAR.

Mar 032017
 

Plastic surgery has done more for human happiness than psychopharmacology.

Mar 022017
 

Not to opine in public on matters that surpass one’s understanding — this is the most neglected of civic duties.

Mar 012017
 

Every discipline attempts to transfer sovereignty from the consumer to the producer; “professionalism” is our name for a successful coup.

Feb 282017
 

Self-criticism, painful as it may be, at least affords the opportunity to think about oneself.