Everything – Page 208 – A book of aphorisms
Jan 272016
 

Great rewards await those who supply the rich and powerful with reasons for whatever they were going to do in the first place.

Jan 262016
 

Selflessness needs constant vigilance, which takes the form of self-scrutiny, self-flagellation, self with every meal, in every bath.

Jan 252016
 

A bureaucratic government may be lawless, but a lawful government must be bureaucratic.

Jan 222016
 

I want to visit the future to see how many parodies have entered the history books.

Jan 212016
 

We seem almost naturally to revere books, for which reading them is the only cure.

Jan 192016
 

Principles of Software Diagnostics

1. The error is simple.
2. The error is your own.

Jan 182016
 

Ideology, n.  A theory that explains everything except its genesis.

Jan 142016
 

Doubt the tale while you live it, lest you fall
Victim to its retrospective pall.