When you list four sources in a footnote, you have forty; when you list three, you have three.
Feb 202015
Feb 192015
Nothing sucks the joy out of an avocation like trying to make a living at it.
Feb 182015
There is nothing that everyone should read but a lot that no one should.
Feb 172015
No cynic would argue for cynicism.
Feb 162015
A thing got rid of is a joy forever.
Feb 132015
You understand another language not when you can translate it, but when you no longer have to.
Feb 122015
The reader properly resents coincidence. Life does not arrange itself to suit him; why should it arrange itself to suit the author?
Feb 112015
Mathematics, n. That part of human knowledge in which deduction is reliable.
Feb 102015
The right side of history — it is a marvel in its way. Five small words, yet is there a contemporary folly it neglects to embrace?
Feb 092015
Data and science have become our garlic and wolfsbane.