Everything – Page 245 – A book of aphorisms
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.

Aug 132014
 

Too bourgeois is an irritant, not bourgeois enough a disaster.

Aug 122014
 

Men will never be as good at being men as cats are at being cats.

Aug 112014
 

One can achieve certain intense aesthetic experiences only at the cost of missing out on others entirely.