Everything – Page 245 – A book of aphorisms
Aug 272014
 

When you have eliminated all other possible explanations, the one that remains, however unlikely, must be that you missed something.

Aug 262014
 

A man can adapt to nearly anything, but only two or three times.

Aug 252014
 

The heretic is not punished for error: he is punished for heresy.

Aug 222014
 

It is a kind of madness, never to sicken at the sound of your own voice.

Aug 202014
 

That no one is above the Law is less a principle than a threat.

Aug 192014
 

The reader will often reject, when it is explained and argued for, what he would swallow if it were stated baldly and unadorned.

Aug 182014
 

Inflict the punishment, and the crime will be inferred.

Aug 152014
 

People put up with more from software than they ever would from humans.

Aug 142014
 

Relativity is uncertainty for infants, Heisenberg for children, and Gödel for adolescents. Uncertainty for adults is the halting problem.