Everything – Page 287 – A book of aphorisms
Jan 152013
 

To determine who is expert requires an expert.

Jan 142013
 

No one is unprincipled until he is successful.

Jan 112013
 

Your terrible secret is that you have no terrible secret.

Jan 092013
 

Men can always be found to do the king’s bidding without asking so much as the king’s shilling in return.

Jan 082013
 

It takes half a lifetime to learn to read slowly.

Jan 072013
 

The least forgiving pedant is the kindergartener in possession of a new fact.

Jan 042013
 

The successful liar is never forgiven for showing us how tawdry the stories are in which we are eager to believe.

Jan 032013
 

The magic of compound interest, natural selection, and many other misunderstood phenomena is the simple algorithm, iterated indefinitely.