Major vices are too alien and fascinating to earn our unalloyed contempt; we reserve that for minor ones.
Jan 132017
Jan 122017
An idea both novel and interesting is almost surely wrong.
Jan 112017
A career can be fashioned from a single idea. Two may be tolerated. Three or more are fatal.
Jan 102017
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt look like sound epistemic principles to me.
Jan 092017
When someone does not speak your language, raise your voice.
Jan 062017
You can talk a man into anything, as long as there’s nothing you have to talk him out of.
Jan 052017
Historically killing deprived its victims only of life; the modern refinement is to deprive them first of agency.
Jan 042017
Ugliness, incompetence, immaturity: these have become ideologies — no longer failures but ends in themselves.
Jan 032017
A better version of oneself will be someone else.
Jan 022017
Most of the enlistees in a struggle against oppression regard it merely as a struggle for spoils; the rest are insane.