Everything – Page 183 – A book of aphorisms
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.

Dec 302016
 

Accidents happen not when alarms fail to go off, but when they go off too often.

Dec 292016
 

What schoolteachers like to call problems are in fact exercises. Avoiding exercises is an example of a real problem.

Dec 282016
 

Small advances come from fixing what’s broken, great ones from breaking what’s fixed.