Boredom can be fatal, though it never appears on the coroner’s report.
Apr 232014
Boredom can be fatal, though it never appears on the coroner’s report.
Women lead, pretending to follow; men follow, pretending to lead.
Nothing dispels the illusion of planning and control like watching someone use your software.
The fiercest tribal warrior is the universalist.
In fiction we admire energy, not virtue. We root for the life-force, however it manifests.
There are entire fields, like psychiatry and philosophy, devoted chiefly to exploding the errors that they create.
The Third Culture is Engineering.
Ingenuity is fatal in philosophers.
Ignorance prevents plagiarism but does not confer originality.
Humanity has progressed vastly with how, less with what, and not at all with why.