There are ways to praise a book that discourage reading it.
Dec 272016
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.
Dec 162016
In politics: We need X, therefore we must do Y. With equal logic, and more truth: We need to do Y, therefore X must become necessary.
Dec 152016
Good governance is when the populace makes most of its own misery.
Dec 142016
It is no harder to foresee the future than to construe the past.