It takes a lot of time and trouble to write a bad book.
Dec 032014
Dec 022014
Readers fall in love with villains because authors do.
Dec 012014
Scholarship
Magisterial: Pompous
Brilliant: Unreliable
Valuable: Trivial
Eccentric: Deranged
Classic: Dull
Formidable: Duller
Encyclopedic: Stupefying
Nov 282014
It is when we recognize our hopeless inadequacy at everything else that we discover our vocation.
Nov 272014
Any sufficiently naive use of the word “science” is indistinguishable from the word “magic.”
Nov 262014
It is futile to expect judges to uphold laws of which they disapprove when people refuse to believe anything they find unpleasant.
Nov 252014
The Dunning-Kruger effect is especially pronounced in people who know what the Dunning-Kruger effect is.
Nov 242014
Being bad at math does not make you good at art.
Nov 212014
Every logical fallacy is also a valid heuristic.
Nov 202014
Beware the Houyhnhnms. The Yahoos are of no consequence.