Everything – Page 235 – A book of aphorisms
Jan 092015
 

People never appreciate how I cringe for them.

Jan 082015
 

Pretentious nonsense and pseudo-difficulty drive truly difficult problems out of circulation, as bad money drives out good.

Jan 072015
 

The artist-provocateur does more damage than he knows: he immunizes his audience against shock, and who cannot be shocked cannot be moved.

Jan 062015
 

Most of the people who have ever lived have been almost entirely inarticulate, and we know nothing about them.

Jan 052015
 

Success, n.   A not entirely unbroken record of failure.

Jan 022015
 

You call a man a cynic when you can’t call him wrong, and an idealist when you don’t want to.

Dec 312014
 

You change the code to make it possible to change the code.

Dec 302014
 

In psychiatry the diagnosis becomes the disease.

Dec 292014
 

For purposes of conversation the world can be divided into two classes: too young to talk, and too old to listen.