People should do their own thinking no more than they should do their own plumbing.
Jan 292014
People should do their own thinking no more than they should do their own plumbing.
Today we hear silence as our ancestors heard music.
We all speak truth to power that we are sure will pay us no mind.
Anyone who hates children is paying them far too much attention.
Politicians do not place their personal interests before the national interest: they regard them as indispensable to the national interest.
The most interesting things to do are the dullest to watch.
In tedium lies opportunity.
Our ancestors believed in ghosts of people; we believe in multiple regression — ghosts of causes.
A thinker is understood best by his public detractors, who have the most to lose by misunderstanding him.
No government suppresses thought and speech as effectively as your friends and neighbors do.