Accidents happen not when alarms fail to go off, but when they go off too often.
Dec 302016
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.
Dec 272016
There are ways to praise a book that discourage reading it.
Dec 262016
Noble deeds, performed without regard for reputation or reward, would be more common if there was just some way to get the word out.
Dec 232016
You don’t build machines smarter than the designer for the same reason you don’t write novels with characters smarter than the author.
Dec 222016
To imagine oneself facing an unpleasant truth — few sensations are as pleasant.
Dec 212016
Confusion about pronouns will be feminism’s enduring legacy.
Dec 202016
Democracies are apt to take office for power, semblance for substance.
Dec 192016
To the victor in argument belong no spoils.