Mathematics, n. That part of human knowledge in which deduction is reliable.
Feb 112015
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.
Feb 062015
The modern world does not create our ills; it only drags them into the light.
Feb 052015
A chief source of the world’s ills is that it is run largely by people who did well in school.
Feb 042015
If you want to kill your marriage, talk about it.
Feb 032015
They’re all counter-revolutions after the first.
Feb 022015
Nice isn’t funny, funny isn’t nice, and nice isn’t even especially nice most of the time.
Jan 302015
It can be more useful to generalize a question than to answer it.
Jan 292015
The fanatic merely acts on his creed. His opposite is the hypocrite, and there is no third alternative.