Artists should be judged by their best work. Architects do not have this luxury.
Nov 292016
Nov 282016
Each great upheaval of history that now seems to us inevitable came to nearly everyone who lived through it as a complete surprise.
Nov 252016
That we would have been above the absurd beliefs and barbaric practices of other times — this absurd belief abets our barbaric practices.
Nov 242016
Aristocracies die with the disappearance of their duties, not their privileges.
Nov 232016
The Off button has grown smaller, and scarcer, and harder to find; soon it will disappear.
Nov 222016
We can almost forgive the genius for being sane, but not for being happy.
Nov 212016
We can forgive capitalism, democracy, and technology for giving us what we want, but not for showing us what we want.
Nov 182016
Pedantry begins as a parasite on fastidiousness, and eventually destroys its host.
Nov 172016
Sometimes we encounter ideas that cannot be reconciled with what we already believe, and these we call untrue.
Nov 162016
What have you unlearned today?