We weigh nothing so judiciously as a compliment.
Jul 312013
Jul 302013
Revolution is seeded by abuse and watered by reform.
Jul 292013
Taste is quality divided by expense.
Jul 262013
The parable of the drunk looking for his keys under the street lamp, where the light is better, explains vast swaths of intellectual history.
Jul 252013
You haven’t learned a trade until you are surprised to see it done well.
Jul 242013
If choice trumped biology, men would divorce their children instead of their wives.
Jul 232013
The good customer never reminds the shopkeeper how good a customer he is.
Jul 222013
It is difficult to write even ten words without wasting one.
Jul 192013
Reading old books leavens our fashionable prejudices with a few unfashionable ones.
Jul 182013
Most of what passes for deep thought today can be traced to some misunderstanding of Darwin, Einstein, Heisenberg, or Gödel.