Carelessness is a mild form of malice.
Sep 102014
Sep 092014
Some subjects are to be studied for their own sake, others for the immunity conferred against their adepts. The vaccination principle applies to education as well as to medicine.
Sep 082014
You attenuate your strengths by too assiduously correcting your defects.
Sep 052014
It is a grave misfortune to be stupid, yet we all laugh at the stupidity of others without a twinge of guilt.
Sep 042014
You can ignore the opinions of others if you know your own worth, and a persistent delusion works equally well.
Sep 032014
What is personality but bias?
Sep 022014
No one will listen to you talk about the uselessness of a prestigious education unless you have one.
Sep 012014
Every genocide is an accidental eugenics program.
Aug 292014
Courage! You have less to lose than you think.
Aug 282014
The archetype of the modern intellectual is not the dry specialist, as the nineteenth century foresaw, but the interdisciplinary huckster.