It is when we recognize our hopeless inadequacy at everything else that we discover our vocation.
Nov 282014
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.
Nov 192014
The first trick every utterly unreasonable person masters is a calm and reasonable appearance.
Nov 182014
Better a handout than a sermon, and better neither than both.
Nov 172014
Working on an easy task when you are capable of a hard one is a particularly insidious form of procrastination.