Your terrible secret is that you have no terrible secret.
Jan 112013
Jan 102013
Gore your own ox.
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.
Jan 022013
The historian imagines leaders who move nations by themselves, as the physicist imagines spherical cows of uniform density.
Jan 012013
Legality is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Dec 312012
Where ideas compete freely, the prettiest win.